Liberalism Quotes

• Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

  William E. Gladstone

  Trust, Fear, People

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• Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Politics, Transformation, Mankind

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Philosophy, Useless

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.

  Josh Bernstein

  Country, World, Disease

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

  Theodore Beale

  Stupid, Mirrors, Socialism

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• Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

  Thomas Sowell

  Faces, Conservative, Humans

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.322, Hoover Press

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Average, Answers, Messages

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• Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.

  Stephen Holmes

  Gun, People, Demand

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.

  Joe Arpaio

  Education, Food, Believe

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• Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, People, Political

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. February 01, 2002.

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

  John Stossel

  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Political, Tolerance

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Equality, Differences

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• Liberalism is a mental disorder.

  Michael Savage

  Disorder, Mental Disorder

  Michael Savage (2011). “Abuse of Power: A Thriller”, p.312, St. Martin's Press

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Government, Political

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.

  James Burnham

  Suicide, Ideology, Western

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• No one is responsible under liberalism.

  David Horowitz

  Responsible

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

  Carter Glass

  Wisdom, Money, Men

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  In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

  Ann Coulter

  Abortion, Medical, Sin

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• 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.

  E.W. Jackson

  Lynching, Ideas, Ku Klux Klan

  "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing. In the liberal welfare state, one develops an entitlement mentality. And the rhetoric of liberalism - labeling each new entitlement a 'right reinforces this sense of entitlement.' -

  Dennis Prager

  Character, Erosion, Guarantees

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