Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

• We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fighting, Enemy, Liberty

  "National archives: Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush power of trade unions" by Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2013.

• I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Fighting, Winning

  "I shall fight on, I fight to win". Margaret Thatcher's remarks to journalists in Downing Street on leadership election second ballot, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 21, 1990.

• The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. 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 and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Thatcher's speech in Perth, Scotland (May 13, 1983), as quoted in "British Vote Campaign Gets Off to Angry Start" in New York Times, May 14, 1983.

• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

• I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, War, Fighting

  "In her own words" by Julian Glover, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2002.

• We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fighting, Weapons, Soil

• I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Fighting, Erosion

• I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Fighting, Want

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

• They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fighting, People, Rotten

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

• Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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

• 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.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Clouds

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

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