Margaret Thatcher

I just owe my father everything. He brought me up to believe that I was always going to be able to do anything I wanted to do. He was a very remarkable man.

I am not a fan of the permissive society.

I owe nothing to feminism. I fought my way through on my own.

Europe will be stronger precisely because it has Britain as a member.

The government has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If government wants to spend more, it can only do so by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. And it's no good thinking that someone else will pay. That someone else is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they mean - a new tyranny. But we say 'Power to the people' and we mean the power to choose, the power to create, the power to own, the power to prosper. These are the true rights of man.

I fought the battle for Britain, and I won.

The greatest danger to this country is not communism, it is socialism.

I will stay and fight for as long as I feel it is right to do so.

What is success? It is being able to live your life in your own way, by your own rules, and to achieve your own goals.

I am not a wet, I am a warrior.

The spirit of enterprise is the spirit of freedom.

There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. They are wrong. The state provides nothing. It only distributes what others produce.

I came to office with one clear purpose: to get Britain back on her feet again.

The British character has been formed by a long history of self-reliance and independence.

We have to get back to basics: to family, to community, to self-reliance.

I believe that the role of government is to ensure that people have the freedom to make their own choices, and then to live with the consequences of those choices.

The only way to create wealth is to work for it.

Britain's decline is not inevitable. It is a choice.

Freedom is indivisible. If you give it to one, you have to give it to all.