„Independence, self-reliance, individuality.“
"If you value independence and self-reliance, then you will practice thrift to achieve them. You will seek an ordered society in which an individual's chosen pattern of life is protected by the law from criminal violence.
We do not need statistics to tell us that vast numbers of people in this country first want to own a home in which they can take pride, in which they can live their personal lives in the environment of their choice.
In short, terrible as this may sound to our socialist opponents, they want to own a piece of personal property.
In order to obtain it, they are prepared to save their money.
They are prepared to forego some immediate pleasure or luxury for what they judge to be the greater satisfaction of ownership.
It is worth asking ourselves two further questions.
Why do they find such satisfaction in ownership?
Why are they ready to make sacrifices for it?
The answer is because it gives them a sense of independence, of self-reliance, of individuality. They feel some of the pride of ownership.
Independence, self-reliance, individuality.
These are the values which count most with so many people.
Here is a firm foundation on which to build a policy, more reliable than the discredited theories of Karl Marx.
— Speech to Conservative Women's Conference (1975)