Quotes on Iron Lady

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

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

There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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

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

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.