Liberal Quotes

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald Reagan

Friends, Trouble, Ignorant

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Education, Society, Heart

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

Today, Play, Same

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Black, America, United

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

Political, Human, Desire

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau

God, View, Presented

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Water

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

America, United

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Power, Worshipper

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Others, Wishes, Evils

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

Future, Forward, Woman

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

Understand, America, Sometimes

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.
Clint Eastwood

Worry, Off, Side

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell

Life, Money, Getting

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu

Secret, Matters, Army

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Success, Change, Politics

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

May, Sense, Laws

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Frank Dane

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.
Glenn Beck

Good, Heart, Brain

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Doubtful, Preferred, Cases

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass

Money, Else, Somebody

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli

Away, Himself, Gentleman

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.
Louis C. K.

Someone, Same, Sense

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid

Character, Study, Faithful

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
Ann Coulter

Age, Idiot, Either

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
Mason Cooley

Faithful, Stay, Ghetto

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew Henry

Education, Men, Learning

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.
Marco Rubio

Thought, Word, Company

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