#lib

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#liberty #obtain #preserve #than

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#his #i #influences #least #liberty

You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#before #deliberately #enable #fiscal #going

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. ↗

— Drew Carey

#abraham lincoln #ago #day #essentially #fit

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#compromise #conditions #consciousness #continuous #equilibrium

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#audience #been #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. ↗

— Robert Caro

#become #deliberately #effort #expert #i

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. ↗

— Robert Caro

#come #discouraging #eisenhower #feeling #fell

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#come #figure #figured #go #going

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#broadway #doubt #element #fools #hollywood