Oswald Mosley Quotes

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

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.

Having uncritically accepted [Western] culture in everything, we now find we have lost our hold on the autonomous ideals of the Japanese race.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for.

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

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.

There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.

A great silence has fallen upon the real soul of this nation.

A nations loses its soul and spirit if it cannot act to protect its most basic interests and values.

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

It is our turn to guard our heritage from Mongol, and Persian and Moor, before we become engulfed in a limitless foreign sea.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad,..

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.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

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.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.