Quotes About Classical Liberalism

#1. Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. Unlike classical liberalism, which saw the government as a necessary evil, or simply a benign but voluntary social contract for free men to enter into willingly, the belief that the entire society was one organic whole left no room for those who didn't want to behave, let alone "evolve.

Jonah Goldberg

#3. The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.

Ludwig Von Mises

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

Richard A. Epstein

#5. Classical liberalism was wrecked on the shoals of capitalism, but

Noam Chomsky

#6. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Frederic Bastiat

#7. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

Henry Steele Commager

#8. Callie, if you never think of the present then you can never do a thing about the future. The future's just made up on dozens of right-nows strung together.

Rachel Heffington

#9. Your secret is safe with me, Kal-El

Lionel

#10. The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Marc Bloch

#11. In your twenties, you expect to accumulate a graveyard's worth of failed romances. But what you don't count on is having to bury so many treasured friendships alongside them.

Ryan O'Connell

#12. If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.

Bre Pettis

#14. I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

Victoria Jackson

#15. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

Judith Rossner

#16. too many left-wing student groups treat no one as badly as students of color or women who consider themselves to be classical liberals, libertarians, or conservatives, or who merely disagree with the actions of progressive protesters on campus. They're seen as special kinds of traitors.

Conor Friedersdorf

#17. So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

Niall Ferguson

#18. That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

Malcolm X

#19. Gaze Upward, Look Inward, Reach Outward, Press Forward.

Thomas S. Monson

#20. The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Ludwig Von Mises

#21. To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

Henry Hazlitt