#liberal

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conviction #defense #definition #families #family

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appropriate #cried #family #family values #feeling

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

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Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. ↗

— Edward Levi

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