"I will not change just to court..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher

“I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.”

“I am an ally of the United States. We believe the same things, we believe passionately in the same battle of ideas, we will defend them to the hilt. Never try to separate me from them.”

“(I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.”

“You must do right before you feel good.”

“Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.”

“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

“I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.”

“Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”