Top 24 Classical Liberal Quotes

#1. If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

David Harsanyi

Classical Liberal Quotes #165617
#2. I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

Charles Koch

Classical Liberal Quotes #852028
#3. A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

Charles Koch

Classical Liberal Quotes #1210962
#4. The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people
he is not an egalitarian
but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

Classical Liberal Quotes #1215397
#5. It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.

Charles A. Murray

Classical Liberal Quotes #1229129
#6. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

Classical Liberal Quotes #1242344
#7. A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

Milton Friedman

Classical Liberal Quotes #1244193
#8. I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Classical Liberal Quotes #1751808
#9. I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

John Mackey

Classical Liberal Quotes #101916
#10. To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Thomas More

Classical Liberal Quotes #1858847
#11. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Richard A. Epstein

Classical Liberal Quotes #1840080
#12. People first, then money, then things.

Suze Orman

Classical Liberal Quotes #1773713
#13. Liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the establishment.

Susan Sontag

Classical Liberal Quotes #1694402
#14. Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

Victor Hugo

Classical Liberal Quotes #1569886
#15. The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Prince Charles

Classical Liberal Quotes #1517219
#16. At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Nick Vujicic

Classical Liberal Quotes #1444837
#17. I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I need.' Maybe they are the same. [p. 14]

Sylvia Boorstein

Classical Liberal Quotes #1375117
#18. Arab culture both in its classical expression and in the most influential aspect of its present-day expression is opposed in almost every particular to liberal culture

Abdallah Laroui

Classical Liberal Quotes #1048773
#19. One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality

Antonio Gramsci

Classical Liberal Quotes #1006014
#20. Content," huh? Ha! Where's the container?

Cory Doctorow

Classical Liberal Quotes #600892
#21. For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

Sara Sheridan

Classical Liberal Quotes #207878
#22. It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

Robin Williams

Classical Liberal Quotes #171430
#23. The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

Barbara Mertz

Classical Liberal Quotes #110243
#24. He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman you need."
"Maybe I don't want gentle."
He pulls something from his dress pants and presses it into my hand. "And that is my fault.

Tara Brown

Classical Liberal Quotes #12850

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