Quotes on Liberalism

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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

Freedom is participation in power.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.