Liberalism Quotes

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.

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

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.

The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

Liberalism, socialism, whatever, it is such a corrupting, destructive thing. And I believe it's the most destructive force in the world today, outside of, militarized weaponry and that kind of thing.

One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

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 alternatives.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.

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

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

Every subsection of liberalism is always busy attacking another subsection of liberalism, because god forbid they should all band together and actually fight for the cause.