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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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If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies.

If you ever get trial by television or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies.

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Put your savings in your socks and they'd nationalise socks.

Put your savings in your socks and they'd nationalise socks.

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I'm not concerned with diplomacy. I'm concerned with fighting terrorism. That is my duty to the people of Britain. That is the duty I uphold.

I'm not concerned with diplomacy. I'm concerned with fighting terrorism. That is my duty to the people of Britain. That is the duty I uphold.

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I think if any government gave into violence and intimidation of the kind which has disfigured our screens, there would be no future for democracy. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.

I think if any government gave into violence and intimidation of the kind which has disfigured our screens, there would be no future for democracy. It is the work of extremists. It is the enemy within.

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They think it's attractive to offer to the young a future wholly controlled by the operation of the socialist state. What is their message? To each his own pigeonhole. From each, total conformity. We utterly reject it.

They think it's attractive to offer to the young a future wholly controlled by the operation of the socialist state. What is their message? To each his own pigeonhole. From each, total conformity. We utterly reject it.

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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.
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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 Thatcher

365,672 views • 1 month ago

Private property is vital to freedom. The more industries you have in the hands of government, the more the bureaucrats run things...Bureaucrats on the whole are not good at business, they're not good at industry. They shouldn't have the running of it. The more powers you put into the hands of government, the less the powers of the people. The more in the hands of the bureaucrats, the less in the hands of the electors. So of course we reduced that. It not only puts the industries back to people who know how to run them but it extends share ownership. We've extended capital ownership far wider than ever before. Capital ownership should be something that every single person feels that as they begin to prosper, they can put money aside and build up capital; build their own security. It makes them much more powerful against a government.
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Private property is vital to freedom. The more industries you have in the hands of government, the more the bureaucrats run things...Bureaucrats on the whole are not good at business, they're not good at industry. They shouldn't have the running of it. The more powers you put into the hands of government, the less the powers of the people. The more in the hands of the bureaucrats, the less in the hands of the electors. So of course we reduced that. It not only puts the industries back to people who know how to run them but it extends share ownership. We've extended capital ownership far wider than ever before. Capital ownership should be something that every single person feels that as they begin to prosper, they can put money aside and build up capital; build their own security. It makes them much more powerful against a government.

Margaret Thatcher

93,537 views • 18 days 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.
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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 Thatcher

581,923 views • 5 months 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.
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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 Thatcher

271,501 views • 2 months ago

You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever stands in his way. You get him out, you make him pay, and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.
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You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever stands in his way. You get him out, you make him pay, and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.

Margaret Thatcher

567,494 views • 5 months 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."
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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 Thatcher

594,339 views • 6 months ago

To be soft on crime is to betray the law-abiding citizen. And to make excuses for the criminal is to offer incentives to dishonesty and violence. Crime flourishes in a culture of excuses. We Conservatives know, even if many sociologists don't, that crime is not a sickness to be cured—it is a temptation to be resisted, a threat to be deterred, and an evil to be punished.
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To be soft on crime is to betray the law-abiding citizen. And to make excuses for the criminal is to offer incentives to dishonesty and violence. Crime flourishes in a culture of excuses. We Conservatives know, even if many sociologists don't, that crime is not a sickness to be cured—it is a temptation to be resisted, a threat to be deterred, and an evil to be punished.

Margaret Thatcher

17,925 views • 5 days 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.
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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 Thatcher

329,379 views • 3 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.
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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 Thatcher

279,231 views • 3 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.
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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 Thatcher

318,868 views • 4 months ago

Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men."😂
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Wogan: "They don't seem to make any concession to the fact that you're a woman." Thatcher: "No. Why should they? I don't make any concession to the fact that they're men."😂

Margaret Thatcher

1,028,152 views • 1 year 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.
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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 Thatcher

336,516 views • 5 months ago

If the right honourable gentleman is suggesting that we ever get to a position where we cannot return illegal immigrants to their country of origin, then he is proposing international chaos.
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If the right honourable gentleman is suggesting that we ever get to a position where we cannot return illegal immigrants to their country of origin, then he is proposing international chaos.

Margaret Thatcher

1,748,677 views • 2 years ago

No self-respecting country gives up control over its currency and its finance.
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No self-respecting country gives up control over its currency and its finance.

Margaret Thatcher

20,826 views • 9 days ago

I was told beforehand that my arrival was unscheduled. But on my way here, I passed a local cinema. It turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: 'The Mummy Returns'.
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I was told beforehand that my arrival was unscheduled. But on my way here, I passed a local cinema. It turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: 'The Mummy Returns'.

Margaret Thatcher

203,583 views • 3 months ago

Capitalism has a moral basis. The reason being, unless you have economic freedom, you will have no other freedom at all. [...] To be free, you have to be capitalist. Every free society in the world is a capitalist society. Not every capitalist society is free, but a pre-condition for freedom is capitalism.
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Capitalism has a moral basis. The reason being, unless you have economic freedom, you will have no other freedom at all. [...] To be free, you have to be capitalist. Every free society in the world is a capitalist society. Not every capitalist society is free, but a pre-condition for freedom is capitalism.

Margaret Thatcher

55,108 views • 1 month ago

They're a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble.
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They're a weak lot some of them in Europe, you know. Weak. Feeble.

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135,683 views • 3 months ago

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business. It will be called 'Rent-A-Spine'.
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When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business. It will be called 'Rent-A-Spine'.

Margaret Thatcher

122,621 views • 3 months ago

We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal. But to us, every human being is equally important.
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We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal. But to us, every human being is equally important.

Margaret Thatcher

192,369 views • 5 months ago

We must not profess the Christian faith and go to church simply because we want social reform and benefits, or a better standard of behaviour, but because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom, and the supreme sacrifice of Christ.
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We must not profess the Christian faith and go to church simply because we want social reform and benefits, or a better standard of behaviour, but because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom, and the supreme sacrifice of Christ.

Margaret Thatcher

76,319 views • 2 months ago