Thatcher Quotes

“The now frail former prime minister was too weak to speak at Reagan’s funeral. But she taped a eulogy that was played at Washington’s National Cathedral. It was touching and poignant, especially when she said, unflinchingly, “For the final years of his life, Ronnie’s mind was clouded by illness. That cloud is now lifted. He is himself again – more himself than at any time on this earth. For we may be sure that” – and here she used Reagan’s term, a jarring note in her precise diction – “the Big Fellow Upstairs never forgets those who remember Him.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“It was up to the private sector, she insisted, to create jobs and wealth. In words that went to the heart of her ideology, she said: “Government workers can’t pour out of Whitehall every day, with bowlers and brollies, and say now we are going to start sixty new businesses in every town. We wouldn’t know what to do! We are administrators. It is for us to create the right conditions for enterprise to thrive.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“To Margaret Thatcher’s mind, the cure for the British disease was to root out socialism entirely, end deficit spending, reduce the power of unions, privatize the nationalized industries, reduce taxes, restore respect for business and wealth, and revive British pride and patriotism.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“The outspoken Thatcher had a knack for turning a quotable phrase. Among them: “There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.” “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” “To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“To the dismay of more moderate Conservatives, she rejected the conventional wisdom of compromise and consensus. “The Old Testament prophets,” she preached, “didn’t go out on the highways saying, ‘Brothers, I want consensus.’ They said, ‘This is my faith and my vision! This is what I passionately believe!”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“Her campaign slogan: “Vote Right to Keep What’s Left.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“The airlines, the railroads, and much of heavy industry were all nationalized, and the government owned and operated the coal mines, steel mills, and auto factories. The result of this experiment with socialism would come to be known as the “British disease.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“economic conservatism in books such as Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, which condemned economic intervention by government as a precursor to totalitarianism.”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“it is only the sacrifices of a few that benefits the greater numbers,”
― New Word City, Thatcher

“the people of Europe fell into two categories: They “were either odious enemies to be defeated or useless allies who had to be saved from the consequences of their own feebleness by the British and Americans.”
― New Word City, Thatcher