I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher. View more images...