Great Liberal Quotes

• Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a good cause. Since most Americans don't know or care what the Constitution says, let alone what their ancestors thought it meant, the great liberal snow job has been very successful.

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  Joseph Sobran

  Jobs   Successful   Government  

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• Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

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  Clare Boothe Luce

  Morality   Illusion   Virtue  

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• I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

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  John Bright

  Party   Years   Reform  

  Speech on April 28, 1859. The Times, p. 6, April 29, 1859.

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• In America, one of the great liberal documents of the world is the Declaration of Independence. One of the great conservative documents of the world is the Constitution of the United States. We need both documents to build a country. One to get it started - liberal. And the other to help maintain the structure over the years - conservative.

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  Jim Rohn

  Country   Years   America  

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 09, 2015

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• The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.

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  Paul Craig Roberts

  Rights   Race   Order  

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• So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.

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  Ludwig von Mises

  Men   Peaceful   Feminism  

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.76, VM eBooks

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