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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.

Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Margaret Thatcher
Encouraging, Perseverance, Jobs
"The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

Margaret Thatcher
Iron, Leader, Steel

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

Margaret Thatcher
Strong, Government, Personality
"Thatcher warns of 'dictatorship'". www.cnn.com. June 1, 2001.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher
Unemployment, Rising, Inevitable

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

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

If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

Margaret Thatcher
Mean, Past, Socialist Government

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

Margaret Thatcher
Argentina, Cry

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.

Margaret Thatcher
Patriotic, People, Great Leadership
Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

Margaret Thatcher
Political, Politics, Problem

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

Margaret Thatcher
Balls, Falklands

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

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

Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

Margaret Thatcher
Often Is, Groups, States

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.

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

Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

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

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

Margaret Thatcher
Media, Waiting, Want
Speech at Conservative Party Conference, Brighton, England, 10 Oct. 1980 See Christopher Fry 1

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

Margaret Thatcher
Technique, Doctrine, Needs

I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.

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

When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

Margaret Thatcher
Jobs, Government, People

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

Margaret Thatcher
War, Rain, Tanks

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

Margaret Thatcher
Wall, Powerful, War

I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.

Margaret Thatcher
Decision, I've Learned, One Thing
"How Veddy" by Hugh Brogan, www.nytimes.com. October 23, 1994.

The virtues prized in free countries are honesty, self-discipline, a sense of responsibility to one's family, a sense of loyalty to one's employer and staff, and a pride in the quality of one's work. And these virtues only flourish in a climate of freedom.

Margaret Thatcher
Loyalty, Country, Honesty

There's no such thing as society.

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

I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?

Margaret Thatcher
Country, Strong, Views

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