There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families – Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady. if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t – Margaret Thatcher

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing – Margaret Thatcher

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive – Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy – Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left – Margaret Thatcher