Believe Quote by Dwight Macdonald

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

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

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

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that…

— Anonymous

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

— Niall Ferguson

“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.”

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or…

— Walter Cronkite

“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more…

— Leo Tolstoy

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay…

— Theodore White