Liberal Quotes

1001 Liberal quotes by 702 unique authors

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
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
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. — Nick Clegg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder. — Norman Mailer
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
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
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. — Cynthia Ozick
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
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. — William Wordsworth

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