Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Long, Want

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

• I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technique, Doctrine, Needs

• What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Russia, Revolution, Coups

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

• Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Kings, Thinking, Rights

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

• I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Thinking, Revolution

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