Definition of Liberalism

Liberalism

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.

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Liberalism Quotations

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
Thomas Sowell

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Adolf Hitler

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!
Lionel Blue

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?
Phil Ochs

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Craig Bruce

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
Oliver Stone

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen

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

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
Oliver Stone

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

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Francis Parker Yockey

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.
Jean-Francois Lyotard

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Francis Parker Yockey

The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Alexander Herzen

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Rich Lowry

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
Powell Clayton

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Liberalism Translations

liberalism in German is Liberalismus
liberalism in Italian is liberalismo
liberalism in Spanish is liberalismo

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