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

Margaret Thatcher

Time

Compromise

Nothing

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

Walking

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.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

End

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

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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

Home

Father

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Margaret Thatcher

Women

Nothing

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.

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

End

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Margaret Thatcher

Argument

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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

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

Nations

Publicity