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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Quote by -Elie Wiese)

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the people tempered by fear. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. (Quote by - Frank Dane)

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. (Quote by - Jacques Barzun)

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)

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. (Quote by - Christopher Bigsby and Malcolm Bradbury)

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. (Quote by - Gregory Nunn)

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. (Quote by - Carter Glass)

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedoms of others. (Quote by -Nelson Mandela)

The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

We must become the change we wish to see in the world. (Quote by -Mahatma Gandhi)

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

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. (Quote by - Molly Ivins)

I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists. (Quote by -Jane Fonda)

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. (Quote by - Anne Lamott

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it. (Quote by - Herbert Prochnow)

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