"I love argument, I love debate. I..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.”

“Consensus is the negation of leadership.”

“Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.”

“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”

“When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.”

“When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.”

“If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.”

“Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?”

“One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.”