Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

I believe in defending democracy by preserving democracy, not by descending to the use of the same weapons used in dictatorships, whether of the Nazi or Communist stripe.

Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons we have. It is less effective if we blur its clarity and we should do this as sparingly as possible.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Albania under law is the motto that leads our vision.

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

Free integral elections should be guaranteed, where values of justice and rule of law also prevail.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.