Top 100 Liberal Quotes

#1. I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Liberal Quotes #103
#2. Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.

George S. Patton

Liberal Quotes #1586
#3. The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

Ibn Warraq

Liberal Quotes #3251
#4. It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

David Limbaugh

Liberal Quotes #3966
#5. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

Thomas Stockman

Liberal Quotes #6294
#6. Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

John Searle

Liberal Quotes #7881
#7. 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

Liberal Quotes #12708
#8. No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberal Quotes #12719
#9. Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Baruch Spinoza

Liberal Quotes #12756
#10. This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.

Robert Teeter

Liberal Quotes #13678
#11. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Donna Leon

Liberal Quotes #16896
#12. Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Aristotle.

Liberal Quotes #16913
#13. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter

Liberal Quotes #18121
#14. Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.

Bill O'Reilly

Liberal Quotes #18191
#15. Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

Alan Dershowitz

Liberal Quotes #18415
#16. What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.

Donald Tusk

Liberal Quotes #18520
#17. Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now say it means.

Joseph Sobran

Liberal Quotes #19457
#18. When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

Stephen Colbert

Liberal Quotes #21084
#19. I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited
it will be spirited
because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica
conservative Republican ... Hello? Easy there.

John McCain

Liberal Quotes #24823
#20. Heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies, than we are ready to believe or receive.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Liberal Quotes #28884
#21. The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

Emile Durkheim

Liberal Quotes #30656
#22. It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

Charles Kuralt

Liberal Quotes #31824
#23. 'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

Liberal Quotes #32255
#24. I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to both sides of the argument. Rather, they want judges who will impose their liberal agenda on the American people; views so liberal that they cannot prevail at the ballot box.

John Cornyn

Liberal Quotes #34356
#25. Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Angelina Grimke

Liberal Quotes #38332
#26. Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Alveda King

Liberal Quotes #40821
#27. There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.

Henryk Skolimowski

Liberal Quotes #41079
#28. A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

Mort Sahl

Liberal Quotes #45081
#29. Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.

Saint Ignatius

Liberal Quotes #47117
#30. I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

Ana Gasteyer

Liberal Quotes #50330
#31. The ethics of peace is liberal; it's not conservative based.

Henry Johnson Jr

Liberal Quotes #50985
#32. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham

Liberal Quotes #52900
#33. At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Liberal Quotes #57267
#34. Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.

King Tuff

Liberal Quotes #57283
#35. It seriously irks me when people mistake Ron Paul for a libertarian. The man is as much a libertarian as Barack Obama is a liberal.

Michel Templet

Liberal Quotes #67822
#36. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Liberal Quotes #67942
#37. I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.

George Brandis

Liberal Quotes #68327
#38. While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

Tony Blankley

Liberal Quotes #68748
#39. The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda ... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.

Paul Haggis

Liberal Quotes #69609
#40. I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.

Sean Hannity

Liberal Quotes #69822
#41. What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?

Stacey Dash

Liberal Quotes #72433
#42. The liberal agenda: Being good to liberals

George Will

Liberal Quotes #75153
#43. The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.

Bill Moyers

Liberal Quotes #75538
#44. On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

Gyles Brandreth

Liberal Quotes #75903
#45. I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.

Robert Casey

Liberal Quotes #76706
#46. It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

Pat Boone

Liberal Quotes #77410
#47. It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Bell Hooks

Liberal Quotes #78739
#48. Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.

Jerry Falwell

Liberal Quotes #78837
#49. May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

Guru Nanak

Liberal Quotes #79286
#50. A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Max Eastman

Liberal Quotes #79981
#51. In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.

Robert Conquest

Liberal Quotes #82750
#52. A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Frank Rizzo

Liberal Quotes #82888
#53. Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

Michael Ignatieff

Liberal Quotes #82999
#54. In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

David Graeber

Liberal Quotes #83255
#55. All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard John Neuhaus

Liberal Quotes #84595
#56. This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.

Rick Mercer

Liberal Quotes #85072
#57. I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

Rachel Maddow

Liberal Quotes #85173
#58. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Michael Joseph Brown

Liberal Quotes #86450
#59. The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Liberal Quotes #88246
#60. Far-seeing patriots should turn scornfully from men who seek power on a platform which with exquisite nicety combines silly inability to understand the national needs and dishonest insintcerity in promising conflicting and impossible remedies.

Theodore Roosevelt

Liberal Quotes #88472
#61. If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Thomas Browne

Liberal Quotes #90263
#62. Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Charles Kennedy

Liberal Quotes #90793
#63. Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

John Dewey

Liberal Quotes #90879
#64. The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.

Milton Friedman

Liberal Quotes #91468
#65. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Liberal Quotes #91891
#66. The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks ... of all classes that we have little support for a political ethic of communalism that promotes the sharing of resources.

Bell Hooks

Liberal Quotes #92183
#67. 'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

Liberal Quotes #93642
#68. What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

Stokely Carmichael

Liberal Quotes #94442
#69. Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Winston Churchill

Liberal Quotes #95807
#70. Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

Orlando Figes

Liberal Quotes #96415
#71. When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

Adam Hamilton

Liberal Quotes #97755
#72. A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.

Richard Jeni

Liberal Quotes #98198
#73. I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

Peter Landesman

Liberal Quotes #98295
#74. I'm more of a man than any liberal.

Ann Coulter

Liberal Quotes #99494
#75. 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

Liberal Quotes #101916
#76. The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Liberal Quotes #103261
#77. There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

Ted Cruz

Liberal Quotes #104592
#78. Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

Criss Jami

Liberal Quotes #104848
#79. Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Liberal Quotes #107081
#80. Jews are the most liberal, scrappy, civil-rightsy people there are.

Sarah Silverman

Liberal Quotes #108979
#81. I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

Henry David Thoreau

Liberal Quotes #111051
#82. Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

Mitt Romney

Liberal Quotes #111255
#83. Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

Margo Kingston

Liberal Quotes #113828
#84. I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for political power in their own culture. The basis for this behavior is a desire for notoriety.

Truman Capote

Liberal Quotes #114059
#85. The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberal Quotes #114321
#86. Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Liberal Quotes #117392
#87. I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Mayim Bialik

Liberal Quotes #119696
#88. I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

Lou Reed

Liberal Quotes #120082
#89. Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberal Quotes #120086
#90. Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Dennis Prager

Liberal Quotes #121507
#91. Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

Ronald Reagan

Liberal Quotes #122061
#92. Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Joshua Jackson

Liberal Quotes #122344
#93. Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Leo Strauss

Liberal Quotes #126244
#94. Mr. Audley, never having been in politics, treated them a little more seriously. Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

G.K. Chesterton

Liberal Quotes #127107
#95. Be composed
be at ease with me
I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.

Walt Whitman

Liberal Quotes #128371
#96. George Soros finances liberal immigration policy throughout the Western world and also funds Noel Ignatiev and his "Race Traitor" website dedicated to the abolition of the white race. So

Kevin Macdonald

Liberal Quotes #129897
#97. Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Liberal Quotes #134291
#98. Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Jonathan Sacks

Liberal Quotes #134578
#99. I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Paul Wellstone

Liberal Quotes #135133
#100. My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

Julie Bowen

Liberal Quotes #135389

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