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Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.
— Stephen Holmes
Our athiests are pious people.
— Max Stirner
I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?
— Rush Limbaugh
They need a deen that's not your uncle's deen.
— Michael Muhammad Knight
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals ...
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
— Michael Savage
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.
— Charles Barkley
British rule meant not democracy -colonialism is almost by definition underdemocratic - but limited constitutional liberalism and capitalism
— Fareed Zakaria
Equality has no place for genius.
— Allen Bloom
The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.
— Bobby Jindal
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
— Glenn Greenwald
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
— Oliver Stone
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
— Adolf Hitler
Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.
— Rush Limbaugh
Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.
— Jonah Goldberg
Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?
— Don Feder
The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.
— Charles Krauthammer
Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.
— Jonathan Bowden
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
— Benito Mussolini
...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.
— Russell Shorto
IPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.
— Evgeny Morozov
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
— John Rawls
But liberals love to drape themselves in decades-old glories they had nothing to do with.
— Ann Coulter
During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.
— Craig Ferguson
No one is responsible under liberalism.
— David Horowitz
Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.
— George F. Will
Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
— Camille Paglia
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I realize that the New York Times probably not written for the express purpose of driving me mad; I think of it as liberalism's daily bulletin board.
— Joseph Sobran
Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.
— Theodore Beale
Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.
— Mona Charen
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
— Whitney M. Young
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
— Richard John Neuhaus
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If you are in favour of global liberal hegemony, you are the enemy.
— Alexander Dugin
We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.
— Niall Ferguson
Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
— Ann Coulter
If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.
— Michael Muhammad Knight
Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.
— Rush Limbaugh
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
— Norman Mailer
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism means well, but it destroys
— Dennis Prager
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
— Bertrand Russell
People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
— Zadie Smith
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.
— Rush Limbaugh
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
— Thomas Sowell
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
— Jonah Goldberg
An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
— Lionel Blue
There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.
— Geoff Dyer
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
— Stanley Hauerwas
A stable and prosperous DRC is the victory of the World. Congo is a deciding factor for Africa's development whether we like it or not.
— Ahmed Padia Binkatabana
Liberalism is a disease cured only by a lobotomy or 90 days in a third world country.
— Josh Bernstein
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
— Rush Limbaugh
I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.
— Josh Bernstein
A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
— Francis Parker Yockey
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
— Gunnar Myrdal
Whenever all men are ... hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
— C.S. Lewis
The world is facing a historic turning point because the system of materialistic liberalism has come to a deadlock.
— Kingoro Hashimoto
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.
— Thomas Huxley
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
— Marc Forne Molne
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
— Camille Paglia
Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
— Eduard Limonov
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
— James Cook
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
— Jonah Goldberg
That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives.
— Ann Coulter
For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.
— Ronald Reagan
I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.
— Leila Janah
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
— Louis Simpson
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
— Bill Kristol
Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head.
— Francois Guizot
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
— Daniel Webster
I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times.
— Maureen F. McHugh
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
— Jack Nicholson
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
— John Gresham Machen
Everything's urgent to a Democrat.
— Carol Sobeski
The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
— Francis Parker Yockey