Liberalism Quotes

229 Liberalism quotes by 158 unique authors

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to… — Morris Raphael Cohen
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical… — Benjamin Disraeli
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but… — Terry Eagleton
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic… — Jim Hightower
Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! — Ferdinand Lassalle
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise. — Rush Limbaugh
Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed. — Rush Limbaugh
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against. — Rush Limbaugh
Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to… — Rush Limbaugh
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great… — Rush Limbaugh
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with… — Rush Limbaugh
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose. — Ted Nugent
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind… — Camille Paglia
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of… — Steven Pinker
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the… — Dennis Prager
Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. — Dennis Prager
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What… — Mitt Romney
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this… — Paul Ryan
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. — Laura Schlessinger

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