Margaret Thatcher Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

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

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

“No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.”

“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.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

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

“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.”