Margaret Thatcher Quotes

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your own, And you watch them build the war machine right beside your home, And you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the war, I know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.