Alive Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either…

— W. S. Gilbert

“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

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious,…

— Norman Tebbit

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

— Timothy Noah

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

— Walter Cronkite

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is…

— Leo Strauss

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a…

— Leonard Bernstein

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other…

— Camille Paglia