I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.
Margaret ThatcherThe Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
Margaret ThatcherTo the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.
Margaret ThatcherAmerica, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
Margaret Thatcher