Quote

When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

Margaret Thatcher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
Autobiographer
Barrister
Business Executive
Chemist
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
Scientist
Statesperson
Baroness Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Margaret Roberts
Maggie Thatcher
Baroness Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Roberts
Lady Thatcher
Mrs. Thatcher
Mrs. T
Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
Successful
Help
Helping
Back
Need
Needs
Penalize
Hold

More quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Image
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Economics are the method the object is to change the soul.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Putting the World to Rights
Margaret Thatcher
Image
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Any attempts by any government to change Community legislation to its own wishes are doomed to failure following the extension of policy areas now subject to majority voting... In our opinion, this must have serious implications for the traditional view of Parliament as a legislative body sovereignty.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.
Margaret Thatcher