Quotations
“Hell, it seems, hath no fury like a multi-culturalist contradicted.” Theodore Dalrymple
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... G. K. Chesterton
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
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when
it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with
other people's freedom and security. William F Buckley, Jr
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately
none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
Harold MacMillan
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert
Frost
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust
of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone
The
knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions. Christopher Bigsby and Malcolm Bradbury
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.
Same old slippers, same old rice; same old glimpse of paradise. William James (1842-1910)
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” (William Shakespeare)
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow colorblind.
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version." Colonel Oliver North
There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo
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
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. Heywood Broun
I am for `Peace, retrenchment and reform', the watchword of the great Liberal
party thirty years ago. John Bright
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign
policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous
pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order. Spiro T Agnew
“The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.” T. C. Douglas
“The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them” Lenny Bruce (Controversial American stand-up Comedian and Satirist of the 1950s and 60s. 1925-1966)
“Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side”
“Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.” surfun Dennis Prager (Radio talk show host, author, lecturer)
“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.” Dennis Prager
“We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.” Ann Coulter
“My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.” Marian Wright Edelman
“Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.” Ann Coulter
“Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box” Rush Limbaugh (American, b.1951)
“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help” Thomas Sowell (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.” Daniel P. Moynihan (American Politician, 1927-2003)
“There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.” James Q. Wilson
“Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.” Ann Coulter
“Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?” Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian Poet, b.1933)
“Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then” Andy Rooney (American Journalist, Correspondent, Writer and Producer, b.1919)
“Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.” Dennis Miller (American Comedian and Actor, b.1953)
“I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy.”
“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job” Neal Boortz
“I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.” Ronald Reagan (American 40th US President (1981- 89), 1911-2004)
“That (separation of church and state) was never in the Constitution, however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and well it was never in the Constitution! Such language only appeared in the constitution of the communist Sovi” Pat Robertson
“The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all” Henry Louis Mencken (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)
“The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.” P. J. O'Rourke (American political commentator,Journalist, Writer and Humorist, b.1947)
“While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” Ann Coulter
“Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.” Ann Coulter
“Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.” Ann Coulter
"Liberals hate America, they hate "flag-wavers," they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now." Ann Coulter
“Have we been cryptic? Right-wingers said Clinton was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. It turned out he was a lying, unscrupulous traveling salesman. Now liberals scratch their heads demanding to know: So what was it about him you didn't like?” Ann Coulter
“When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.” Dennis Prager (Radio talk show host, author, lecturer)
“Catholic-baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals” Peter Viereck
“The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.”
Shirley Chisholm (American Politician, the first African-American woman to win a seat in the United States Congress, b.1924)
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.” Ann Coulter
“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.” Ann Coulter
“The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America: an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America.” Ann Coulter
“The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action” Thomas Sowell quotes (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)
“The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.” John G. Diefenbaker