#liberal

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

#highest #ideas #instead #into #introduction

I think that liberals need to grow up. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#grow up #i #i think #liberals #need

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#discover #give #hearing #liberals #offended

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

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand

At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. ↗

— Todd Akin

#god #government #hatred #heart #liberalism

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. ↗

— Henry Addington

#hate #i #lack #liberality #nine

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#democrat #democrat party #future #liberal #party

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

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals. ↗

— Paul Begala

#definition #fellow #fight #great #liberal

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#built #congress #country #crunch #decades