Liberal Quotes

• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  

  George Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Conjecture
  • Incompatible

• Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.

  

  Michael Dukakis
  • Political
  • Proud
  • Choise

• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Leader
  • Humility
  • Prize

• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Proud
  • United States
  • Population

• I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Liberal
  • Defended
  • Clintons

• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  

  George Washington
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Liberal

• If you are a conservative, you think that a citizen has no right to hire another to kill him (much less to kill a third party), because life is a sacred gift that cannot be negotiated. But for the liberal, there is nothing more sacred than the right to buy and sell - even life itself: if you think your life sucks and want to hire a professional to put an end to it, neither the State nor the Church have the right to give the slightest opinion.

  

  Olavo de Carvalho
  • Life
  • Gift
  • Liberal

• Economic policy and foreign policy in Europe have been too liberal. We have failed when it comes to maintaining the social contract, which is the very foundation of the social-democratic social model.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Social
  • Policy
  • Contract

• What is the difference between a parasite and a liberal? The spelling!

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Difference
  • Liberal
  • Spelling

• Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

  

  Stockwell Day
  • Conservative
  • Liberal
  • Parties

• We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.

  

  Delbert L. Stapley
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

  

  Michael Franks
  • Write
  • Poetic
  • License

• I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Don't Think
  • Liberal
  • Make Sense

• A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

  

  Michael Ignatieff
  • Carnivores
  • Eaters
  • Herbivores

• I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

  

  Emile Faguet
  • Liberal
  • Anarchist

• Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.

  

  Barbara Bergmann
  • Advice
  • Conservative
  • Liberal

• There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

  

  John Calvin
  • People
  • Pride
  • Liberal

• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Liberal
  • Welcoming
  • Small Mind

• LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • Mind
  • Ends
  • Open

• Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

  

  Red Smith
  • Improvement
  • Normal
  • Room

• You can vote Liberal or Labor and you’ll get exactly the same amount of funding for your school

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • School
  • Vote
  • Labor

• Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Conservative
  • Agreement
  • Liberal

• I've always argue against emotions. You're seeing intimidating threats against anchors by people in the Trump campaign. You see physical violence at rallies, you see a man handling of a reporter, Michelle Fields. You have Trump talking about opening this liberal law - these libel laws to protect feelings. What you're seeing here is kind of a mob mentality.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Law
  • Violence
  • Trump

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