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"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann von Goethe
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"Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." »Frank Mankiewicz
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"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." »Robert Frost
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"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." »Winston Churchill
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"I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." »Will Rogers
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"To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins." »Heywood Broun
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"Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned." »Dick Gregory
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"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain." »Winston Churchhill
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"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." »Willis Player
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"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." »Kurt Vonnegut
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"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us." »Lionel Trilling
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"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal" »Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
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"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion." »Cicero
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"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." »Robert Anton Wilson
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"What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn
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"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!" »Sonjay Anand
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"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." »Leonard Bernstein
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"The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White
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"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover." »Al Franken
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal." »Bhartrihari
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"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." »G. Gordon Liddy
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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson
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"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative." »Edward Abbey (Vox Clamans in Deserto)
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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." »George Washington
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