There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
Margaret ThatcherI calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
Margaret ThatcherPlatitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret ThatcherSome Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
Margaret ThatcherIf my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret ThatcherWe very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.
Margaret Thatcher