"I am much nearer to creating one..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
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.
More by Margaret Thatcher
“Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.”
“Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.”
“From my experience let me say this: in today's world it is no bad thing for a politician to have had the benefit of a scientific background. And not only politicians. Those who work in industry, in commerce, in investment. Indeed, so important has it become that I believe we are right to make science a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren.”
More on Social Class
“Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.”
“In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.”
“If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”
More on National Unity
“Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.”
“There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.”
“America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation.”