Coercion Quote by Harold Edmund Stearns

“Looked at from the point of view of citizens, liberalism is a practice of politics for people who will not be bossed about or…

— Edmund Fawcett

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to…

— Herbert Hoover

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose…

— Rush Limbaugh

When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons.…

— Greg Gutfeld

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

— William E. Gladstone

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

As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not advocate change…

— Ralph Barton Perry

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

— Ann Coulter

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude…

— David Mamet

Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading…

— Maurice Cowling

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche