"To cure the British disease with socialism..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
More by Margaret Thatcher
“In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'”
“No great goal was ever easily achieved.”
“The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.”
More on Socialism
“Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.”
“In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.”
“The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.”
More on Economics
“Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.”
“Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.”
“There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.”