Liberalism Quotes · Page 25

“More than Christianity, the religion of Victorian times was a belief in human advance - the conviction that freed from ignorance and…

— John Gray

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,…

— John Adams

“Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and, since the great majority of the original adherents of both maintained the right of…

— Rudolf Rocker

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say…

— Pat Conroy

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It's become fashionable to try to ban words we're uncomfortable with, which you really…

— Andrew Heller

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

— Anonymous

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are…

— Richard M. Nixon

Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.…

— John Chamberlain

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

— Ben Domenech

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the…

— Grover Cleveland

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those…

— Daniel Webster

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

— Pope Pius XI

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to…

— Ronald Reagan

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the…

— Johnny Ramone

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

— Ferdinand Lassalle

“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this…

— David Harvey

“What sorts of people dig up a black grandparent and then demand special privileges? What does it mean when these same people…

— Daniel Greenfield

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

— Anonymous