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People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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
Children, Home, School
"Confrontation with reality". Margaret Thatcher's speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 14, 1977.

There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.

Margaret Thatcher
Strong, Danger, Defence

The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.

Margaret Thatcher
Grateful, Europe, United States

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

Margaret Thatcher
Politics

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

Margaret Thatcher
Hands, Invisible Hand, Creative
"Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.

Margaret Thatcher
Gun, Mirrors, Long

Tyranny must not prevail.

Margaret Thatcher
Tyranny

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher
Hate, Unemployment
Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.

Margaret Thatcher
Children, Home, Important

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

Margaret Thatcher
Conviction

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

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

For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

Margaret Thatcher
Reading, Writing, Thinking
"The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher, 1995.

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

Margaret Thatcher
Powerful, War, Self

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

Margaret Thatcher
Eggs, Broken, Former
"Statecraft".

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

Margaret Thatcher
Order, Eggs, Leader

The Russians put guns before butter. We put just about everything before guns.

Margaret Thatcher
Gun

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Margaret Thatcher
Government, People, Looks

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Margaret Thatcher
Party, Nhs, Conservative

Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

Margaret Thatcher
Eggs, Way, Socialism

We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.

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

The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

Margaret Thatcher
Clothes, Looks, Ridiculous

I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

Margaret Thatcher
Believe, Fighting, Erosion

... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.

Margaret Thatcher
Men, Ideas, Way

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

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

We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.

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

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