Margaret Thatcher

"Marxist analysis has some points, although speaking as a non-Marxist, I believe it is a failed system."

"I always stood up for what I believed in, regardless of the personal cost."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"God did not make the world in seven days, and neither should you expect others to."

"Let our children grow tall, and some will naturally be taller than others."

"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles."

"Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the price of milk."

"I like to think of myself as a very normal sort of person, with all the weaknesses and strengths that most people have."

"The gratitude I feel to the British people for their support is immense."

"I am not a consensus politician. I am a conviction politician."

"Health and education will be the prime concerns."

"One cannot erase the past, but one can work for the future."

"The prime minister must try to do what she believes is right."

"Nothing is more important than love and family."

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

"The veneer of civilization is paper-thin; we are not that far from barbarism."

"Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny."

"I stand by everything I have ever said."

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"One must be in private what one aspires to be in public."

"A woman's place is in the House—and in the Senate."

"I have my faults, but changing my principles is not one of them."

"The question we should ask ourselves is whether we are happy rather than whether we are successful."

"In my lifetime, all my problems have been solved by not money, but by people."

"Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned here on Earth."

"The choice facing the nation is a simple one: it is between two totally different ways of life."

"I speak as a politician and as a woman, and I tell you that those things matter most, indeed only matter, to me."

"To achieve anything in this world, you have to be willing to accept hard work and disappointment."

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib."

"The greatest good of the greatest number must be the goal."