Margaret Thatcher Quotes

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!