[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In our time, in particular, there exists another form of ownership which is becoming no less important than land: the possession of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Darwin and Nietzsche were the common spiritual and intellectual source for the mean-spirited and bellicose ideological assault on progress, liberalism, and democracy… — Arno J. Mayer Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution,… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
“The left loses most policy debates, leading them to engage in the politics of personal destruction. Many liberals do not see conservatives… — Eric Golub Copy Share Image
What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The foundational principles of modern liberalism - civil rights and greater economic equality - took further strides during Johnson's presidency than any… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
One should study the Bible alongside other intellectual traditions - such as British constitutionalism, Enlightenment liberalism, and classical republicanism - in order… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs,… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“So far we have looked at two of the three practical threats to liberalism: firstly, that humans will lose their value completely;… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I was the first to tell people, my success doesn't depend on who wins elections, 'cause I can't control that. But I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed… — Edmund Fawcett Copy Share Image
The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image