Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Socialism

Quotes about: Socialism

• Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, People, Fists

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

• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

• The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Problem, Socialism

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Fundamentals, Sides

  "The speech Donald Trump should give tonight to win it all" by Monica Crowley, www.washingtontimes.com. July 20, 2016.

• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Leeches, Disease

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

• No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Democratic Socialism, Government

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Golden, Socialism

• 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

• 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.

• Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Ordinary, Might

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

• Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wall, Past, Views

• 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

• Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Way, Socialism

• I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opportunity, Men, Two Nations

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