Liberal Quotes

1001 Liberal quotes by 702 unique authors

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense… — Jonathan Sacks
Democrats are making it clear that they intend to use our economic crisis to rush through their longtime liberal goals without public scrutiny or debate.… — Jim DeMint
Every liberal on the campaign trail has a plan to deliver free, socialized medicine, but no country on earth, folks, can possibly pay for every… — Rush Limbaugh
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in… — Mary Blakely
The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against… — Chris Carter
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,… — P.J. O'Rourke
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's trade disputes are… — Robert Kuttner
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically… — Thomas Sowell
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far… — Charles A. Murray
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs. — Marva Collins
You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if… — Dave Ramsey
Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican. — Mark Hatfield
The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman
The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who… — Alvan Macauley
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards,… — Thomas Willis
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means. — Joseph Sobran
Seattle is this curious liberal island. — Jonathan Raban
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people. — Pat Boone
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a… — Peter Gay
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. — Rich Lowry
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for. — Charles Kennedy
Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education,… — Unknown Author
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend… — Henry A. Wallace

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