The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights…

— Bill Ayers

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

— Sebastian Junger

“The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a tactful publican, it has as few opinions…

— Terry Eagleton

“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell us what…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

— Aristotle

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“First, many of us are tempted to affirm whatever our favorite political tribe affirms, and deny whatever it denies. Nobody likes to risk losing…

— Charles J. Chaput

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies liberty is…

— Charles Fourier

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

— George Will

“In a state where “liberty” is based on the “rights” of each individual there can never be true justice. But in a state where…

— Thomas Merton

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation,…

— Terry Eagleton

In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug…

— Bill O'Reilly

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

— Terry Eagleton

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

— Terry Eagleton