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A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are. — James Fitzjames Stephen

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up. — Sandy Duncan

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. — Alan Dershowitz

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given. — Thurston Moore

Talk about what you love and keep quiet about what you don't. — Josh Radnor

Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told. — John Greenleaf Whittier

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans. — Francine Busby

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. — Laura Schlessinger

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. — Mona Charen

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position. — Stokely Carmichael

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. — Etgar Keret

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. — Martin Seligman

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena. — Stockwell Day

If you say you're a democrat, you're most likely a left-wing liberal. If you're say you're a republican, you're most likely a right-wing millionaire. — Keita Shimizu

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it ... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides. — Felix Rohatyn

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise. — Richard J. Foster

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future. — Alexander Downer

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. — William Henry Maule

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home. — Jessica Alba

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. — Paul Washer

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world. — Tariq Ali

I don't want to do just a liberal show. — Joy Behar

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does. — Will Rogers

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. — Paddy Ashdown

A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. — Robert M. Hutchins

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world. — Toni Morrison

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. — Mona Charen

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal. — Dwight L. Moody

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly. — Lee Doren

God is liberal of color; so should man be. — Herman Melville

I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings. — David Lloyd

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. — William J. Clinton

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters. — Rich Lowry

The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them. — Josh Bernstein

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before. — Frank Rizzo

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged. — Ann Coulter

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. — Robert Anton Wilson

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. — Charles Krauthammer

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

Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. — Mary Shelley

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative. — Sienna Miller

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. — Jon Postel

I'm more of a man than any liberal. — Ann Coulter

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican. — Michael Moore

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. — Winston Churchill

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer. — Samuel Rutherford

The problem is not just liberal extremism or conservative extremism. The problem is extremism. — Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. — Dinesh D'Souza

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, n. A man with his mind open at both ends. — Colin Falconer

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. — Jon Stewart

Youth is almost invariably liberal, age conservative. Adopt — Charlotte M. Brame

I am asking for Liberal Fascists, for enlightened Nazis. — H.G.Wells

Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America. — Mitt Romney

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal. — Robert Downey Jr.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. — Philip Yancey

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. — Florence King

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well. — Charles Kennedy

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed, — Molly Ivins

Perhaps the only permanent solution would be a more liberal Parliament, but it is beyond my expertise to suggest how we might bring that about. — Ted Chiang

I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right. — Jerry Springer

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible. — Judah Ben Samuel Of Regensburg

Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. — Ann Coulter

The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin. — James Cook

Get the hell out of Palestine. — Helen Thomas

I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States. — Aaron Klein

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. — Gillian Flynn

I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College. — Lee Daniels

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. — Paul Weyrich

For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them. — G.K. Chesterton

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 society, in its heart, wants not only domination of the military, but acquiesence of the military toward the liberal view of life. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. — Hugh Hefner

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up. — Stephen Colbert

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder. — John Waters

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon. — Walter E. Williams

There's no good reason that reliably liberal states should be electing senators as friendly to Wall Street as Cory Booker. — Alex Pareene

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be. — George McGovern

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. — Winston Churchill

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal. — King Tuff

A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have more genuine humanity. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

I am proudly a liberal. I am also patriotic, reasonable, pro-American, and stand for family values. — Roger Ebert

This liberal is all about socializing- umm I mean ... — Maxine Waters

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions. — Cynthia Ozick