Ronald Reagan Quotes

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

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

I do sort of question the notion that conservatives should try and turn America into a place where people can come from traditional societies and continue to be fully traditional in every sense.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.