Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Cold War

Quotes about: Cold War

• Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Cold, Shots

  First Clare Booth Luce Lecture, www.margaretthatcher.org. September 23, 1991.

• Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Historical, Aberration

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, War, Together

  The Times 18 Dec. 1984

• No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wall, War, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

• Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Frustration, People

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Cold, Speak

• If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, War, Self

• Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Believe, Weapons

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 20 February 1985

• Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Rain, Tanks

• We're saying to anyone who dares to attack us, Do not do it, you couldn't win, the result would be devastating! I think you're saying the same.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Winning, Thinking

• When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Integrity, War, Responsibility

• I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, War, Giving

  "Hornsey Journal" Interview with Robert Eddison and Barry St John Nevill, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 21, 1978.

• (On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Would Be, Body

• A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dream, Nuclear, World

  Margaret Thatcher's Speech at a Soviet Official banquet, St George's Halls, the Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Iron, Hair

• Hope is no basis for a defense policy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Defense, Cold War, Bases

• The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Opportunity, Moscow

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Liberty

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