Quote

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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
World
Intention
Idealistic
Weapons
Exploit
Willing
Renounce
Least
Exploits
Free
Defence
Self
Favour
Every
Intentions
Good
Anxious
Peacemaker

More quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Image
As prime minister, I worked closely with Ronald Reagan for eight of the most important years of all our lives. We talked regularly both before and after his presidency. And I have had time and cause to reflect on what made him a great president.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
President Numeiri of Sudan is said to have remarked of Gadaffi that he was 'a man with a split personality - both of them evil'.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
Margaret Thatcher
Image
The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
There are always dangers about. Therefore you must always keep your defences strong.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
A quick cure is a quack cure.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Peace is hard work and we must not allow people to forget it.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease
Margaret Thatcher
Image
We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
Margaret Thatcher
Image
I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.
Margaret Thatcher
Image
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
Margaret Thatcher