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It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

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

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

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

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

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

I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

Margaret Thatcher
Sex, Regret, Men

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

Margaret Thatcher
Justice, Nuclear, World

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

Margaret Thatcher
Fall, Leader, Ethics
Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Margaret Thatcher
Government, Waste, Wasting Time

We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

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

One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

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

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

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

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

Margaret Thatcher
Arrogant, Firsts, Assuming

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

Margaret Thatcher
Ifs, Bubbles
"The Way We Live Now: 4-22-01: On Language; Shtick" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2001.

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
Men, Weakness, Faces

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

Margaret Thatcher
Exercise, Liberty, Levels
Margaret Thatcher (1988). “Britain and Europe: Text of the Prime Minister's Speech at Bruges on 20th September 1988”

I never hugged him, I bombed him.

Margaret Thatcher
Iron Lady
"Libya: Margaret Thatcher gives Colonel Gaddafi's Labour friends a history lesson" by Richard Eden, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 13, 2011.

I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

Margaret Thatcher
New Beginnings, New Relationship, Diplomats
Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'

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

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

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

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Margaret Thatcher
Jobs, Technology, Years

If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.

Margaret Thatcher
Thinking, Eva Peron, Ideals
Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

We have become a grandmother.

Margaret Thatcher
Grandma, Grandmother, Grandpa
Quoted in Times (London), 4 Mar. 1989

We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.

Margaret Thatcher
Exercise, Generosity, Mercy
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Margaret Thatcher
Optimistic, Years, Optimism

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