Margaret Thatcher
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Britain's 49th Prime Minister - In office 4 May 1979 – 28 November 1990. Soundbites, quotes, and facts from the Iron Lady on issues of the day.
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Government has no money. We don't take anything called 'government money' in. We only take money from ordinary men and women in to be spent by government. If we take in more to spend, it means they don't have it to spend, so the amount of demand is the same in the economy. But let's just try to see for a moment where jobs come from: Jobs come from business. Business comes from pleasing the customer. This is why we have put so much emphasis on small business. In the end, we rely on the wealth-creating sector, the private sector, to create the jobs and create the business from which we pay the tax to keep the public services going.
Margaret Thatcher97,952 views • 10 days ago
"The new President of Argentina has asked for new peace talks with Britain. Do you say that sovereignty is still not negotiable?" "Sovereignty is not negotiable. You simply cannot lay claim to someone else's territory and then claim there is a dispute and other people have to talk with you, whether you are a dictatorship or a democracy. But when you have become a democracy, that means the government in power has been put in power by the wishes of the people. You would expect such a government to respect the wishes of other people."
Margaret Thatcher211,142 views • 1 month ago
My very first audience as Prime Minister with Her Majesty the Queen set the tone for all those that followed for the next eleven and a half years. But anyone who believes that such meetings are a mere formality would be greatly mistaken. The Queen takes an intense interest in every aspect of life in our country, and she brings to bear a formidable grasp of current issues, and a tremendous breadth of experience. Her guidance and advice are always most acute and as Prime Minister I was privileged to benefit from both enormously. Don't forget she has been Queen longer than any of us were ever Prime Minister. She is truly an inspiration and an example to the whole nation. Long may she rule.
Margaret Thatcher137,218 views • 1 month ago
Once you compress incentives from the top-down and say, "It doesn't matter how much you earn I'm going to take the lion's share away," they say, "Alright, I'm no longer going to do the lion's part." Then they stop creating the extra wealth which would benefit both themselves and society as a whole.
Margaret Thatcher366,247 views • 4 months ago
![The 'Falkland Islands' was the first case [postwar] where any country decided that an aggressor should not succeed. It was the first case of upholding international law. And if I might gently remind you, it's probably because of that Argentina has democracy today.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2008074737122214084/amplify_video_thumb/2007999995220549632/img/Emi_s_ewqSCt9D2o.jpg)
The 'Falkland Islands' was the first case [postwar] where any country decided that an aggressor should not succeed. It was the first case of upholding international law. And if I might gently remind you, it's probably because of that Argentina has democracy today.
Margaret Thatcher581,923 views • 8 months ago
We've been ruled by men who live by illusions: —The illusion that you can spend money you haven't earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors; —The illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by government decree like rabbits out of a hat; —The illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than by hard work and satisfying your customers; —The illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise.
Margaret Thatcher151,031 views • 2 months ago
If everyone can't have it, no one should have it—that is the communist argument.
Margaret Thatcher92,227 views • 1 month ago
On 28th November 1990, Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to the Queen. "We're leaving Downing Street for the last time after eleven and a half wonderful years, and we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom in a very much better state than when we came here."
Margaret Thatcher594,808 views • 9 months ago
When I took over in Britain the top rate of tax on earned income was 83%. The top rate of tax on investment income was 98% ... We had to take away many of the regulations: There were controls on prices, controls on incomes, controls on dividends, controls on foreign exchange—all of this and the top rate of tax went within the first 6 weeks.
Margaret Thatcher87,445 views • 1 month ago
Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.
Margaret Thatcher272,637 views • 5 months ago
Margaret Thatcher famously considered 'Yes, Minister' to be her favourite television programme, and remarked that it was somewhat true to life. As a huge fan, Thatcher took part in a special sketch for the show in 1984 at the National Viewers and Listeners Association Awards. The sketch, which focused on her desire to abolish economists, was co-written by Thatcher and her press secretary, Bernard Ingham.
Margaret Thatcher330,004 views • 6 months ago
Once you start to compromise with the Left, first you compromise with the near Left. Then they're fanatical, and you compromise with the middle Left. Then you find yourselves compromising with the far Left. Never forget that some of the tyrannical regimes have come into power by constitutional means.
Margaret Thatcher319,214 views • 7 months ago
The people who are going to buy council houses are those who would probably live in them for the rest of their lives anyway. It seems to me absolutely wrong to say to them you must go on paying increasing rent for the rest of your life and never have the chance to own your home. Give them a chance to own it. They'd have been there anyway. They'll do their own maintenance. They'll do their own improvements. The next generation will have gotten used to, "I'm going to be a homeowner." It will give them a new independence, and a new dignity.
Margaret Thatcher279,285 views • 6 months ago
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. And it is 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. Prosperity won't come by inventing more and more lavish public expenditure programs. You don't grow richer by ordering another chequebook from the bank. No nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing its citizens beyond their capacity to pay. We have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well.
Margaret Thatcher337,000 views • 8 months ago
If there are no assured penalties against wickedness, some people will disrupt and, if their numbers are sufficient—destroy—all the good things of civilised life. And it's not just the under-class but the "over-class" that can cause the trouble. If politicians or bureaucrats are given power that is unaccountable and unrestrained, they will, in the long run, be as corrupt as they can get away with. That's the best possible argument for limited government—and a pretty good one too against a centralised European superstate.
Margaret Thatcher26,373 views • 18 days ago
