Margaret Thatcher Iron Quotations

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

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

There's no such thing as society.

I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.

I never hugged him, I bombed him.