When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Profession: Leader
Nationality: British


When people are free to choose, they choose freedom. Margaret Thatcher

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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.

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.

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.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

It's a funny old world.

It's no time to be wobbly, Geo.

They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

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

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas.