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I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

I was turned out because I said to Europe no, no, no. That no, no , no has now turned into yes, yes. Two yes's not three because he got the Social Chapter out and he's reserved his position on the single currency.

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

If we open our hearts to God, He has promised to work within us.

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

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
Men, Evil, Personality

(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
War, Would Be, Body

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

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

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher
Feminism, Stewardship
1974 Quoted in the Observer,1 Dec.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

Margaret Thatcher
Running, Government, People

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
Real, Numbers, West

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.

Margaret Thatcher
Hard Work, Men, Creating
Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

There is no such thing as society.

Margaret Thatcher
Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

Margaret Thatcher
War, Important, Alliances

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

Margaret Thatcher
Real, People, Understanding

When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

Margaret Thatcher
August, Chinese, World

Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

Margaret Thatcher
Mean, Technology, Circles

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Margaret Thatcher
Government, Should Have, Choices
Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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
Independent, Guiding Principles, Europe
Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Political Centre (Great Britain) (1988). “CPC [publications].”

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Margaret Thatcher
Zero, Numbers, Absence

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

Margaret Thatcher
Should Have, Requirements, Firsts

Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]

Margaret Thatcher
Accusation, Wells, Response

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Eight, Iron

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.

Margaret Thatcher
Should Have, Law, Should

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

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

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