Liberalism Quotes

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

We shall experience the final defeat of liberalism not when immigration but when emigration is forbidden

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

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 way to approach politics.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Owning a gun in America is one way for conservative white males to demonstrate their anger at crime, liberalism, feminism, and modernity.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.