There will be plenty who will speak in glowing terms of Margaret Thatcher today and in the days to come in the wake of the news of her passing.

I will not be one of them.

It’s not because I didn’t have the utmost respect for Baroness Thatcher rather, because I did.

I simply don’t know the words that could exceed  the words she, herself spoke.

In HER words, The Prime Minister made the uncompromising case for the conservative ideology.

She took over a socialist dominated country in 1979 on the verge of collapse and by the time she left in 1990, her country was a shining example of success.

Her words, turned into actions, paved the way and while Conservatives in our nation are well aware of her political and economic ideologies, today’s socialists could learn a great deal and WOULD, if they weren’t so busy cheering the death of the Iron Lady.

Here, in her own words, is Margaret Thatcher.

“Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.”

“Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.”

“Pennies don’t fall from heaven – they have to be earned here on earth.”

“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.”

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

“Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.”

“For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.”

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”

“If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.”

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“Popular capitalism is nothing less than a crusade to enfranchise the many in the economic life of the nation.”

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”

“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.  ‘

“Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”

“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.”

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.”

“The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.”

“As God once said, and I think rightly…”

“Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, “I believe in consensus?”

“And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.”

“Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.”

“Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.”

And THAT was Margaret Thatcher. How could I or anyone improve upon THAT???