Margaret Thatcher's most famous quotes

LONDON (AP):

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died yesterday from a stroke at age 87 retired from public engagements in 2002, following a series of small strokes, and was only occasionally seen in public since then. Here are some of her most memorable statements:

"There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. … No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do."

- October 10, 1968, Conservative Party Conference

"Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my red chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved ... the Iron Lady of the Western World. Me? A Cold War warrior? Well, yes - if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life."

- January 31, 1976

"You turn if you want to; the lady's not for turning."

- October 10, 1980, Conservative Party Conference

"When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands."

- May 14, 1982, commenting on the Falkland Islands war

"We fought to show that aggression does not pay and that the robber cannot be allowed to get away with his swag. We fought with the support of so many throughout the world. … Yet we also fought alone."

- July 3, 1982, on the Falkland Islands war

"We can do business together."

- December 17, 1984, speaking of Mikhail Gorbachev

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well."

- January 6, 1986, television interview

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

- October 31, 1987, magazine interview

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

- May 3, 1989, commenting on her 10th anniversary as prime minister