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In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

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My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by...

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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, a...

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b...

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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

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Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...

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A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are follow...

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Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

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There were those few, and there will be more, who really liked people, loved people—all people. They...

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The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be a...

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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the bibl...

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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you...

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This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal...

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I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...

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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the l...

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

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Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguis...

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Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition ...

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Albert MemmiThe Colonizer and the Colonized

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodolog...

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

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and...

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We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

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the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘th...

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The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a...

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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...

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Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal b...

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The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...

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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and yo...

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A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be d...

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The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...

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Henry David ThoreauI to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understo...

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An imaginary circle of empathy is drawn by each person. It circumscribes the person at some distance...

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If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas w...

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

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The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined fo...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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