26857. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26856. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26853. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26852. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26851. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26850. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain November 16, 2020
26848. “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26847. “Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries we are left with the problems which aren’t poverty. All right, there may be poverty because people don’t know how to budget, don’t know how to spend their earnings, but now you are left with the really hard fundamental character—personality defect.” ― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher In Her Own Words November 16, 2020
26846. “New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26845. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26844. “Feminists hate me don’t they? And i don’t blame them. For i hate feminism. It is poison.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26843. “Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism. ” Margaret Thatcher” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26841. “Being powerfull is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are, you aren’t” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26840. “El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26839. “El deseo de ganar nace en la mayoría de nosotros. La voluntad de ganar es una cuestión de entrenamiento. La manera en que se gana es una cuestión de honor.” ― Margaret Thatcher, Los años de Downing Street: La autobiografía de la Dama de Hierro November 16, 2020
26838. “No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect. Far from reversing the slow relative decline of Britain vis-à-vis its main industrial competitors, it accelerated it. We fell further behind them, until by 1979 we were widely dismissed as ‘the sick man of Europe’…To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26837. “Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26836. “The problem with socialists, is that they always run out of other people’s money,” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26835. “Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26834. “Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26832. “The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires. Instead of a centralised bureaucracy, the model should be a market — not only a market of individuals and companies, but also a market in which the players are governments. Thus governments would compete with each other for foreign investments, top management and high earners through lower taxes and less regulation. Such a market would impose a fiscal discipline on governments because they would not want to drive away expertise and business. It would also help to establish which fiscal and regulatory policies produced the best overall economic results. No wonder socialists don’t like it.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26829. “Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean – power over people, power to the State.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26828. “And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (…) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26827. “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26825. “Well, there’s a lot to react against! [in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26824. “[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything—security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians’ dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26823. “Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26822. “When people are free to choose, they choose freedom” ― Margaret Thatcher, The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26821. “For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26820. “I don’t think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.” ― Margaret Thatcher 1973 November 16, 2020
26819. “I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’; ‘I am homeless, the government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? “There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. “It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26818. “They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century. [Replying to Kenneth Clarke, who said, “Isn’t it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?” when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-final.]” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26817. “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 November 16, 2020
26816. “As Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 I had the opportunity to put these convictions into effect in economic policy – We intended policy in the 1980s to be directed towards fundamentally different goals from those of most of the post-war ear. We believed that since jobs (in a free society) did not depend on government but upon satisfying customers, there was no point in setting targets for ‘full’ employment. Instead, government should create the right framework of sound money, low taxes, light regulation and flexible markets (including labour markets) to allow prosperity and employment to grow.” ― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power November 16, 2020
26815. “The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26814. “Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020November 16, 2020
26813. “Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.” ― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power November 16, 2020
26812. “Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26811. “well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone” ― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography November 16, 2020
26810. “Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today’s political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order – as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.” ― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power November 16, 2020
26809. “If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26808. “The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
27806. “Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26795. “If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” ~ Margaret Thatcher” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26793. “Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26792. “I’m back… and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign ‘The Mummy Returns’.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26791. “To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26790. “There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.” ― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power November 16, 2020
26789. “Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26788. “No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26787. “Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26786. “Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26785. “Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26784. “In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26783. “Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26782. “I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26781. “Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they’ll become… habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26780. “If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26789. “Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26788. “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26787. “I think we’ve been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it’s the government’s job to cope with it. ‘I have a problem, I’ll get a grant.’ ‘I’m homeless, the government must house me.’ They’re casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It’s our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26786. “I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26785. “It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26784. “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020
26783. “When I’m out of politics I’m going to run a business, it’ll be called rent-a-spine” ― Margaret Thatcher November 16, 2020