What Britain needs is an iron lady.

- Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

- Margaret Thatcher

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

- Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

- Margaret Thatcher

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

- Margaret Thatcher

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

- Margaret Thatcher

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

- Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

- Margaret Thatcher

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

- Margaret Thatcher

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

- Margaret Thatcher

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

- Margaret Thatcher

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

- Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

- Margaret Thatcher

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.

- Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Margaret Thatcher

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

- Margaret Thatcher

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

- Margaret Thatcher