Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

Conciliation is the enemy.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

It's better to have a dialogue with your enemies than not.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

Once in a while I can agree with the enemy.

Stop the fighting and find the middle ground.

Peace itself is not made by documents. Peace is made by good will among men.

The only safe way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.

The way to disarm is to disarm....

We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.

I assure you, Ladies and Gentlemen, that we shall discover ourselves in peace more than we have with war and confrontation, as I am sure that the Israelis, in turn shall find themselves in peace more than they have found it in war.

It's not going to be easy to create a world where both sides prefer peace, but we have to try.

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.