Liberalism Quotes - Page 33

• As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Stars, Men

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• Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Wish, Politics

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• When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

  William Morris

  Wisdom, May, Politics

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• Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of his stock, to those who, he thinks, will employ it profitably, or to those who will spend it idly, and he will laugh at you for proposing the question.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Thinking, Two

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.144

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• If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government.

  John Taylor

  Government, Hands, Majority

  John Taylor (2013). “An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States”, p.255, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, War, Evil

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ; Speeches in Congress”, p.394

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• A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Government, Law

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• I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

  Daniel Webster

  Slavery, Politics, Compromise

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• It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Law, Government

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.207

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• Liberalism is never gonna be that tiny or small.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Tiny

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

  Noam Chomsky

  Today, Modern, Circumstances

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

  Nat Hentoff

  Spokes, Including

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Everyday, Ongoing

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• 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.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Adventure, Rights

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• On the basis of his work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part owner of the great workbench at which he is working with everyone else. A way toward that goal could be found by associating labor with the ownership of capital joint ownership of the means of work, sharing by the workers in the management and/or profits of businesses, so-called shareholding by labor, etc.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Goal, Politics

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• The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Mean, Church

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• The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

  Andrew Johnson

  Wisdom, Government, Ties

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• Justice is the constant and eternal purpose that renders to each his due.

  Justinian I

  Justice, Purpose, Politics

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• Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Everyday, Politics, Life Is

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• All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, New York, Years

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• Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Mean, Opportunity

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• Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Country, Wisdom, Pieces

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• Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Technology, Engineering

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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

  John Rawls

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.622, Harvard University Press

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• If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Money, Divorce

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