Able Quote by Judith N. Shklar

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

“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 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

Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

— Ted Nugent

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may…

— Ana Castillo

“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

My objection to Liberalism is thisthat it is the introduction into the practicalbusiness of life of the highest kindnamely, politicsof philosophical ideas instead of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Decisions are free when each of us settles his path through life by negotiation, playing his cards according to his own best judgement and…

— Roger Scruton

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the…

— Alan Brinkley

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no…

— Morris Raphael Cohen