Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

There is no nation in the world greater, older or more honorable than the Turkish nation, nor has one been seen in the history of humanity.

We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.

Country, Religion, Family!

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

For my part, I do not believe that the country is in danger. I think England is safe in the race of men who inhabit her; that she is safe in something much more precious than her accumulated capital — her accumulated experience; she is safe in her national character, in her fame, in the traditions of a thousand years, and in that glorious future which I believe awaits her.

Nothing is more difficult, in general, than to make a nation perceive anything as true, or seek its own interest, in any manner but as its forefathers have opined and acted.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

We can't bypass our heritage. We can't bypass the knowledge of who we are. You don't take a DNA test to see if you believe in freedom. Freedom is taught, and teaching the Constitution - I won't go on too much.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.