Liberalism Quotations

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

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

There is no greater example of government overreach and unrestrained liberalism than 'Obamacare.' It is so deeply flawed and such a clear and present threat to our economic stability that there is no way to fix it.

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

My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring to public life.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.

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

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

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

Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

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

No one is responsible under liberalism.

Liberalism means well, but it destroys

My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgement on anything.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

The problem is a lack of leadership and an intellectual climate that is extremely hostile to economic liberalism in much of Continental Europe.

At a time when some of our critics have been quick to writes us off, I intend to reassert our credibility and authority. This movement has been fighting for Liberalism for a century and a half. A great cause is not going to be destroyed in a month and a half.

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

Canadians want liberalism without Liberals, or preferably Conservatives without conservatism.

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

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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

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

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

And Chapel Hill becomes famous as sort of a Southern beacon of liberalism and intellectualism. And the University's star begins to rise.

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

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

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

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

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

Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?

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

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

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

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.