Firm Quote by Barack Obama

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

It's very important to say that what I mean when I say 'liberal' is liberal in the 19th-century British sense. Pro-market, pro-individual, freedom, pro-openness.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing…

— Robert Menzies

“We are all familiar with intellectuals who speak only on behalf of their country, class, religion, 'race,' 'gender,' or 'sexual orientation,' and who shape…

— Tony Judt

We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.

— Alan Colmes

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

— Anthony Trollope

“Political scientist Clinton Rossiter, considered one of the first neoconservatives, answered this question head-on, and unlike his peers, honestly, in his early study Conservatism…

— John W. Dean

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days…

— Claire Fox

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve…

— Noah Feldman

Whether they [left in America are] anarcho-communists, anarcho-syndicalists, or libertarians who believe in free enterprise, I regard theirs as the real legacy of the…

— Murray Bookchin

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted…

— Paul Krugman

There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to…

— Bret Weinstein