Quotes: Liberalism

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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.

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

Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country’s well being.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

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

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.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

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

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.