Liberalism Quote by George Orwell

“Those who claim to believe in liberal principals but advocate more and more confiscation of the wealth created by productive people, more and more…

— David Boaz

The biggest danger I feel are an emerging group of Westernised, educated, champagne socialists and latte liberals who pontificate about social inequality, democracy and…

— Calvin Cheng

“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naive and flawed…

— Timothy Snyder

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to…

— Shadia Drury

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne