Liberals

(276 votes)   I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(249 votes)   Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.

Spiro T. Agnew
1918-1996, American Vice President

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(211 votes)   Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(169 votes)   A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(155 votes)   The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(151 votes)   Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(139 votes)   A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.

George Orwell
1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''

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(135 votes)   I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

Barbara Streisand
1942-, American Singer, Actress, Director

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(134 votes)   The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

P. J. O'Rourke
1947-, American Journalist

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(133 votes)   The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(133 votes)   The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(124 votes)   Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(124 votes)   There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist

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(120 votes)   Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Norman Mailer
1923-, American Author

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(118 votes)   The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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