Margaret Thatcher/prime Minister 1979-1990

Famous quotes containing the words margaret thatcher, thatcher, prime and/or minister:

    “I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
    —Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    “Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
    —Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)