Margaret Thatcher Quotes

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

I'm a traditionalist.

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

Conservatism is the politics of reality.

The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the moderate conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.