We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all. Margaret Thatcher More Quotes by Margaret Thatcher More Quotes From Margaret Thatcher I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast. Margaret Thatcher doctors citizens exercise You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about. Margaret Thatcher opportunity believe ideas People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. Margaret Thatcher home children school We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election. Margaret Thatcher two believe years Home is where you come to when you've got nothing better to do. Margaret Thatcher where-you-come home And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism. Margaret Thatcher fighting dark clouds Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader. Margaret Thatcher xmas family christmas It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken. Margaret Thatcher weakness faces men To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect. Margaret Thatcher conservative politician opposites There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people’s lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth. Margaret Thatcher trying heaven people Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians. Margaret Thatcher decision judging europe The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace. Margaret Thatcher west real numbers You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you. Margaret Thatcher selfish children school The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful. Margaret Thatcher united-states grateful europe My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality. Margaret Thatcher guiding-principles independent europe Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization. Margaret Thatcher spiritual heart lying I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs. Margaret Thatcher doctrine technique needs I believe our way of life is infinitely superior for every human being than any which the Communist creed can offer. Margaret Thatcher life-is believe way We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us. Margaret Thatcher soil fighting weapons A bully has no respect for a weakling and the way to stop a bully is not to be weak. The way to stop a bully from ever being a bully is to say: "I'm as strong as you. Anything you do to me, I can do to you." We are going for nuclear and conventional disarmament but we're going about it in the right way. Margaret Thatcher bully nuclear strong
