I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.
[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.
Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.
Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
I think that one of the things that has happened is that psychiatry has become the religion of liberalism.
Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?
Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.
Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.
In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.