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When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union

When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have fallen sharply, it is worth recalling that economic statistics under the Soviet Union were hardly more reliable than any other official statements. Moreover, a country that produces what no one wants to buy, and whose workers receive wages that they cannot use to buy goods they want, is hardly in the best of economic health.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Real, Russia

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Margaret Thatcher
Destiny, Vanity, Europe

Consensus negates leadership.

Margaret Thatcher
Consensus

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

Margaret Thatcher
Trying, Said, Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Margaret Thatcher
Europe, World, Problem
Speech to Scottish Tories, 1999.

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

Margaret Thatcher
Ministers, Advise, Adviser
"British Cabinet in a Flurry; Treasurer and Rival Both Out" by Craig R. Whitney, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 1989.

Home is where you come to when you've got nothing better to do.

Margaret Thatcher
Home, Where You Come
"Margaret Thatcher and Feminism" by Cathy Young, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 18, 2013.

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make midnight cups of coffee. I was in the kitchen helping to dish up and having a fierce argument with one of the boys in the crowd when someone else interrupted to say: 'Of course Margaret, you will go into politics won't you?' I stopped dead. Suddenly it was crystalised for me. I knew.

Margaret Thatcher
Coffee, Ambition, Boys
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation

Margaret Thatcher
Responsibility, Men, Effort
"Thatcher funeral address prompts Tory praise for bishop of London" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Europe, Achievement
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Men, Essence
Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Margaret Thatcher
Platitudes

There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.

Margaret Thatcher
Party, Views, People
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

Margaret Thatcher
War, Iron, Hair

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Margaret Thatcher
Generations, Music Is, My Generation

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

Margaret Thatcher
Way, Return, Cinema

The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

Margaret Thatcher
Timing, Failing, Currency

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher
Years, Investing, Prime

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

Margaret Thatcher
Beautiful, Intelligent, Nonsense

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

Margaret Thatcher
Thinking, Lifetime, Prime
"Val meets the V.I.P.s", www.margaretthatcher.org. March 5, 1973.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

Margaret Thatcher
Inspirational, Fashion, Europe
"Britain must quit EU, says Thatcher" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

Margaret Thatcher
Powerful, Government, Hands

How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

Margaret Thatcher
Government, Add, Causes

The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

Margaret Thatcher
West, Firsts, World

Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.

Margaret Thatcher
Political, Virtue, Substitutes
Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

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