Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, and freedom of religion.

Quotes

• 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, statement of 1953, quoted in A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit (2006) by Cyrus M. Copeland, p. 190

• Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
  • Stephen Colbert, in his address at the Hilton Washington hotel, Washington, D.C. (29 April 2006)

• But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
  • Isaiah 32:8, The Bible (King James Version)

• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
  • Robert Anton Wilson, in The Illuminati Papers (1980), p. 111