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> [There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-weinstein/there-was-a-time-when-the-term-liberal-had-been-so-thoroughly/)

[Bret Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-weinstein/)

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> [I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-august-von-hayek/i-use-throughout-the-term-liberal-in-the-original-nineteenth-century/)

[Friedrich August von Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-august-von-hayek/)

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> [They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-stewart/they-always-throw-around-this-term-the-liberal-elite-and-i-kept/)

[Jon Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-stewart/)

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