Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRICwas a British stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 October 1925
CityGrantham, England
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.
You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.
Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
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.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.
Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.