• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
• After almost any major operation, you feel worse before you convalesce. But you do not refuse the operation.
• Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, "I believe in consensus?"
• And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
• You cannot have the dream of building up your own fortune by your own hopes, your own hands, and your own British guts.
• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
• Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.
• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
• You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
• The government has failed the nation. It has lost credibility and it is time for it to go. just before her win in 1979
• All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.
• Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
• We lost 255 of our best young men. I felt every one. (about the Falklands War)
• I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
• It will be years - and not in my time - before a woman will lead the party or become prime minister. (1974)
• (just before winning a third term) I hope to go on and on. There is so much still to do.
• (just before winning a third term) I have no wish to retire for a very long time. I am still bursting with energy.
• You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.
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