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The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. (Young Whitney M.)
A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. (Young Whitney M.)
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak. (Young Whitney M.)
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. (Young Whitney M.)
Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. (Young Whitney M.)
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. (Young Whitney M.)
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. (Young Whitney M.)
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. (Young Whitney M.)
A liberal is a power worshipper without the power. (Young Whitney M.)
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal. (Young Whitney M.)
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. (Young Whitney M.)
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. (Young Whitney M.)
A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children. (Young Whitney M.)
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. (Young Whitney M.)
Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? (Young Whitney M.)
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. (Young Whitney M.)
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