Respect for History Quotes

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

There are certain transfers you simply don't do. This has a lot to do with respect: respect for tradition and the fans.

A lot of those ideal towns are all starting to look the same, the specifics are starting to disappear. So we need to retain a love for life, a love for one's family, a love for where one's really from.

Americans intentionally deride what people in the Old World hold sacred.

All great peoples are conservative.

Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama's life in any position of influence. You can't do it... Barack Obama detests this nation as founded. He has zero respect for the founding documents.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

Amr ibn Al-'Aas has an important place in Islam and therefore we will not permit any secularist to deride him.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

Conservatives are wary of change. We have respect for things that have lasted a long time and have been proved to work. When things need changing, we should make the changes with respect to all the reasons why those things worked originally as well as the reasons why amendment is necessary.

I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

I am an honest person, and that is why I can admit historical facts and I will never try to contradict them.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

I'm relatively patriotic.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'