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 ThatcherIf you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
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 ThatcherWell, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]
Margaret Thatcher