The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Emancipation of human labor from economic servitude and exploitation, i.e., from organizations of production in which the conditions of work are determined… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Liberalism in various guises - feminism, the sexual revolution, gay activism - has been at war with marriage and family for several… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I am a conservative in large part because I believe that politics should intrude on life as little as possible. Conservatives surely… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it's deadly, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It's the nature of government, to build enduring institutions, structures that stay long after their purpose is over. If you pay people… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
The more people figure this [liberalism a special kind of stupid] out, the more people that see it and are turned off… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution,… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality.… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power… — John Taylor Copy Share Image