Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Rights, Self, Effort

• Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Golden, Socialism

• There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Successful, Light

  Margaret Thatcher (1995). “The path to power”, HarperCollins Publishers

• We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Needs, Mood

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

• That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wealth, Capitalism

• I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Democracy, Want

• To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opposites, Conservative, Politician

• Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Creative

  "Rupert Murdoch's inaugural Margaret Thatcher lecture" by Rupert Murdoch, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

• Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Skills, Tasks, Succeed

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