Liberal Quotes
1001 Liberal quotes by 702 unique authors
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer.…
— Hugo Chavez
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
— Noam Chomsky
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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
— Nick Clegg
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I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end…
— Nick Clegg
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Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I…
— Nick Clegg
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The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I…
— Nick Clegg
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We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on…
— Nick Clegg
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever…
— Edward Gibbon
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The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than…
— Sun Tzu
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a…
— Winston Churchill
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The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.
— Norman Mailer
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being…
— Steven Biko
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
— Cynthia Ozick
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iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
— Evgeny Morozov
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
— William Wordsworth
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