Notable Quote

"A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master, these are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free economy. And on that freedom all our other freedoms depend."

— Thatcher, Margaret event 1975

Context: Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 10 October 1975. Widely circulated online (including on X/Twitter) in a shortened French paraphrase that drops the "British inheritance" clause; this is the full verbatim wording from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation's speech archive.