I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John…

I'm a classic English liberal. A classical liberal, which is different to the modern interpretation of liberal in America.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

— Don Imus

If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

— David Harsanyi

I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

— John Mackey

Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness…

— Oliver Burkeman

John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm…

— Robert H. Frank

The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem…

— Robert Heilbroner

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the…

— Pankaj Mishra

'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion…

— Carl Sagan

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has…

— William Stanley Jevons

John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls…

— Greg Lukianoff

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic…

— Alan Ryan

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper…

— Milton Friedman

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential…

— Friedrich August von Hayek