Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher

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

This lady is not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher

We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret Thatcher

What Britain needs is an iron lady.
Margaret Thatcher

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

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher