Liberalism

🇬🇧Winston Churchill

Politics

Liberalism

1940–2010

"he British workman has more to hope for from the rising tide of Tory democracy than from the dried up drain-pipe of Radicalism."

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy

Liberalism

1806–1873

"In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness."

Karl Popper

Philosophy

liberalism

1902–1994

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit."

🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy

Politics

Liberalism

1925–1968

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me."

Karel Čapek

Literature

Liberalism

1890–1938

"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with — no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."

🇺🇸Henry Steele Commager

Literature

Liberalism

1902–1998

"A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war."

🇫🇷Jean-François Revel

Economics

Liberalism

1924–2006

"Today in America—the child of European imperialism—a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time... and offers the only possible escape for mankind today."

🇫🇷Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Politics

Liberalism

1727–1781

"Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws."

🇫🇷Jacques Bainville

Politics

Liberalism

1879–1936

"May 7, 1919 has not erased the date of January 18, 1871."

🇷🇺Boris Yeltsin

Politics

Liberalism

1931–2007

"I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people."

🇺🇸Hubert Humphrey

Politics

Liberalism

1911–1978

"The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

🇨🇳Hu Shih

Politics

Liberalism

1891–1962

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border."

🇨🇭Benjamin Constant

Politics

liberalism

1767–1830

"Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments"

🇮🇹Benedetto Croce

Philosophy

Liberalism

1866–1952

"Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity.  It is the primary activity of the human mind."

🇺🇸August Heckscher II

Politics

Liberalism

1913–1997

"Eternal vigilance is the condition, not only of liberty, but of everything which as civilized men we hold dear."

🇬🇧Mary Whitehouse

Politics

Liberalism

1910–2001

"Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication."

🇺🇸Robert LeFevre

Business

Liberalism

1911–1986

"Cannibalism is actually a sort of dietetic socialism. Here is the ultimate sacrifice. A human life is taken for the purpose of maximizing the ‘public welfare.’"

🇦🇹Ludwig von Mises

Literature

Liberalism

1881–1973

"All rational action is economic. All economic activity is rational action. All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts."