Margaret Thatcher Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Margaret Thatcher:

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Margaret Thatcher

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Margaret Thatcher

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Margaret Thatcher

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Margaret Thatcher

It's a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

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

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Margaret Thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Margaret Thatcher

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher