Margaret Thatcher Frases famosas
In politics, if you want anything said ask a man, if you anything done, ask a woman
em 1964, conforme citado em "Women in the House: a study of women members of Parliament" - página 91, Elizabeth M. Vallance - Athlone Press, 1979 - 212 páginas
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“Quando se concede à mulher a igualdade com o homem, ela torna-se superior a ele.”
once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.
citando Sófocles, em 1969, na Conferência do Partido Conservador, como citado em "Women in the House: a study of women members of Parliament" - página 91, Elizabeth M. Vallance - Athlone Press, 1979 - 212 páginas
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running the country
citada em "Margaret Thatcher: wife, mother, politician" - página 195, Penny Junor - Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983, ISBN 0283989696, 9780283989698 - 214 páginas
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“Eu e o Reagan demos uma boa ajuda para demolir o comunismo.”
Revista Veja (1994) - Edição especial de 30 anos
“Estar no poder é como ser uma dama. Se tiver que lembrar às pessoas que você é, você não é.”
Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to remind people that you are, you aren't.
citada em "The servant: a simple story about the true essence of leadership" - página 15, James C. Hunter - Prima Pub., 1998, ISBN 0761513698, 9780761513698 - 208 páginas
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Margaret Thatcher frases e citações
“Não existe essa coisa de sociedade, o que há e sempre haverá são indivíduos.”
no such thing as society [...] There are individual
The Downing Street years - página 626, Margaret Thatcher, Editora HarperCollins, 1993, 914 páginas
“Eu sou extremamente paciente, desde que eu siga meu próprio caminho.”
Variante: Eu sou extraordinariamente paciente, desde que finalmente consiga o que quero.
justificando seu empenho pessoal na criação da cátedra de livre iniciativa na faculdade de administração da Universidade de Cambridge; Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/300797/p_015.html
“Levará anos - não em meu tempo - até que uma mulher se torne primeira ministra.”
It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister
citado em "The cost of deception: the seduction of modern myths and urban legends" - Página 115, John Williams - Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001, ISBN 0805423818, 9780805423815 - 212 páginas
cinco anos depois, em 1979, ela era eleita primeira mulher para o cargo na história da Grã-Bretanha.
greed is good
citada em "Arts: Volumes 13-15" - página 116, University of Sydney. Arts Association - Sydney University Arts Association.,1987
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“A missão do político não é a de agradar a todo mundo.”
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone
citada em "The Bulletin: Volume 99" - página 85, Australian Consolidated Press, 1978
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“O consenso é a ausência da liderança.”
Consensus is the absence of leadership
Margaret Thatcher citada em The Political Junkie Handbook - Página 464, Michael Crane - SP Books, 2004, ISBN 1561718912, 9781561718917 - 644 páginas
“Ele está velho, fraco e doente.”
Margaret Thatcher, ex-primeira-ministra inglesa, pedindo ao governo inglês a libertação de Pinochet
Fonte: Revista Veja http://veja.abril.com.br/231298/p_012.html de 23/12/98
Margaret Thatcher: Frases em inglês
“There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454
Second term as Prime Minister
Contexto: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
“I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free”
Speech to Federation of Conservative Students Conference (24 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102663
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free... I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
Often attributed to Thatcher, but originally said by Jesse Carr, head of Teamsters Union Local, in Newsweek, Vol. 88 (1976), p. 77
Misattributed
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”
Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965) ; as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227 : ISBN 0061140406, 9780061140402 . The Margaret Thatcher Foundation http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101374 gives the following additional information : MT spoke on the theme ‘Woman – No Longer a Satellite.’ The Evening News report of this speech is the origin of a phrase often attributed to her : ‘In politics, ... (etc., as above).’
Backbench MP
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
The last sentence is widely paraphrased as "The trouble/problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Leader of the Opposition
Variante: They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
Contexto: And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing... It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
The Times (1980), as cited in [Dale, 2012]
First term as Prime Minister
Speech to the Royal Society (27 September 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107346
Third term as Prime Minister
Speech to Conservative Women's Conference (24 May 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103696.
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: Perhaps [the] most important reason for the fall in standards and increase in crime—the attack on traditional values. It is not surprising that sometimes parents have been confused about the endless advice and the many rival theories on how to bring up children. There were times when I had to remind myself that our parents and grandparents brought us up without trendy theories and they didn't make such a bad job of it. So it would seem that the tried and trusted values and commonsense application would lead to far better results than we are now experiencing. We must teach that each of us is a responsible person who can choose his own course of action and who has a duty to others to do as he would be done by. That morality is largely based on religious values. Cut the stem and the plant withers. That is why we have been so keen to keep religious teaching in our schools. To those who say that is indoctrinating children, I would reply—it is no such thing. It is a practical recognition of the truth that while an adult may, if he wishes, reject the faith in which he has been brought up, a child will find it difficult to acquire any faith at all without some instruction in the discipline of belief and practice.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (8 October 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103105
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.
“We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.”
Speech at dinner for West German Chancellor (Helmut Schmidt) (10 May 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104080
First term as Prime Minister
Contexto: It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a “soft touch” in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.
Speech to Conservative Central Council ("The Historic Choice") (20 March 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: There are others who warn not only of the threat from without, but of something more insidious, not readily perceived, not always deliberate, something that is happening here at home. What are they pointing to? They are pointing to the steady and remorseless expansion of the Socialist State. Now none of us would claim that the majority of Socialists are inspired by other than humanitarian and well-meaning ideals. At the same time few would, I think, deny today that they have made a monster that they can't control. Increasingly, inexorably, the State the Socialists have created is becoming more random in the economic and social justice it seeks to dispense, more suffocating in its effect on human aspirations and initiative, more politically selective in its defence of the rights of its citizens, more gargantuan in its appetite—and more disastrously incompetent in its performance. Above all, it poses a growing threat, however unintentional, to the freedom of this country, for there is no freedom where the State totally controls the economy. Personal freedom and economic freedom are indivisible. You can't have one without the other. You can't lose one without losing the other.
“The record is clear, printing money doesn't create jobs, it only creates more inflation.”
Speech to Conservative Trade Unionists (Annual Conference) (1 November 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104439
First term as Prime Minister
Contexto: If simply printing and spending more money would cure our problems we should by now be one of the wealthiest nations in the Western world.—In the lifetime of the last Labour Government the amount of money in the economy went up by £20 thousand million but the number of jobs did not increase. Indeed, unemployment doubled and prices more than doubled too.—In the last three years (1976–79) the amount of money in the economy went up by 50%; but yet only 4%; went into output, the rest into higher prices and imports. The record is clear, printing money doesn't create jobs, it only creates more inflation. But there is another word for printing money—they call it “reflection”. It is a cosy word but a fraudulent device. It cuts the value of every pound in circulation, of every pound the thrifty have saved. It means spending money you can't afford, haven't earned and haven't got. You would accept that it is neither moral nor responsible for a family to live beyond its means. Equally it is neither moral nor responsible for a Government to spend beyond the nation's means, even for services which may be desirable. So we must curb public spending to amounts that can be financed by taxation at tolerable levels and borrowing at reasonable rates of interest.
Speech to Conservative Central Council ("The Historic Choice") (20 March 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990
Leader of the Opposition
Contexto: Every step this Socialist Government takes to seize more power over our daily lives diminishes those lives and the freedom which is their essence and their strength. One of our principal and continuing priorities when we are returned to office will be to restore the freedoms which the Socialists have usurped. Let them learn that it is not a function of the State to possess as much as possible. It is not a function of the State to grab as much as it can get away with. It is not a function of the State to act as ring-master, to crack the whip, dictate the load which all of us must carry or say how high we may climb. It is not a function of the State to ensure that no-one climbs higher than anyone else. All that is the philosophy of Socialism. We reject it utterly for, however well-intended, it leads in one direction only: to the erosion and finally the destruction of the democratic way of life.
Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1986) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106348
Second term as Prime Minister
Contexto: Popular capitalism, which is the economic expression of liberty, is proving a much more attractive means for diffusing power in our society. Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean— power over people, power to the State. To us Conservatives, popular capitalism means what it says: power through ownership to the man and woman in the street, given confidently with an open hand.
“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (13 October 1989) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107789
Third term as Prime Minister
Contexto: Imagine a Labour canvasser talking on the doorstep to those East German families when they settle in, on freedom's side of the wall. "You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you." Mr President, the trouble with Labour is that they're just not at home with freedom. Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.
TV Interview for Thames TV TV Eye (24 April 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104040
Leader of the Opposition
Speech at St Lawrence Jewry (30 March 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103522
Leader of the Opposition
Speech to Conservative Central Council ("The Historic Choice") (20 March 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990
Leader of the Opposition
Article for Hamburger Abendblatt (13 May 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103683
Leader of the Opposition
Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham (3 July 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104989, regarding the Falkland Islands War.
First term as Prime Minister
Contexto: When we started out, there were the waverers and the fainthearts. The people who thought that Britain could no longer seize the initiative for herself. The people who thought we could no longer do the great things which we once did. Those who believed that our decline was irreversible—that we could never again be what we were. There were those who would not admit it—even perhaps some here today—people who would have strenuously denied the suggestion but—in their heart of hearts—they too had their secret fears that it was true: that Britain was no longer the nation that had built an Empire and ruled a quarter of the world. Well they were wrong. The lesson of the Falklands is that Britain has not changed and that this nation still has those sterling qualities which shine through our history. This generation can match their fathers and grandfathers in ability, in courage, and in resolution. We have not changed. When the demands of war and the dangers to our own people call us to arms—then we British are as we have always been: competent, courageous and resolute.
