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Liberalism

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal. – Proverb

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order. – Spiro T. Agnew

If God had been a liberal, we wouldnt have had the Ten Commandments — wed have the Ten Suggestions. – Malcolm Bradbury

The liberals can understand everything but people who dont understand them. – Lenny Bruce

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. – Taylor Caldwell

A liberal is man who will give away everything he doesnt own. – Frank Dane

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. – Benjamin Disraeli

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. – Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. – Robert Frost

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. – Alexander Herzen

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation — emancipation from ones fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination… from poverty. – Hubert Humphrey

The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority – Henrik Ibsen

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negros great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. – Margaret Mead