It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher More Quotes by Margaret Thatcher More Quotes From Margaret Thatcher There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall. Margaret Thatcher wall powerful war Russia is bent on world domination. Margaret Thatcher bent russia world You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. Margaret Thatcher deceit sometimes lying (On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony." Margaret Thatcher body would-be war President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'. Margaret Thatcher personality evil men I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to. Margaret Thatcher one-thing ive-learned decision One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. Margaret Thatcher women politics sex All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek... Margaret Thatcher knees reading father I am not a compromiser on fundamentals. Margaret Thatcher fundamentals I owe nothing to Women's Lib. Margaret Thatcher stewardship feminism Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think. Margaret Thatcher use people thinking We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. Margaret Thatcher slick campaigns compliment I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property. Margaret Thatcher democracy want men We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government. Margaret Thatcher government sound lying I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have genuinely played the lion's part. They are ready to recognise that those who create the wealth - and I mean not only material but intellectual wealth - enrich the whole nation. Margaret Thatcher character mean believe We have become a grandmother. Margaret Thatcher grandpa grandmother grandma Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom. Margaret Thatcher fighting men believe One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.' Margaret Thatcher success motivational life Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy. Margaret Thatcher independent strong men I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. Margaret Thatcher levers very-good power
