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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a
Republican.
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Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to
organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the
poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help.
Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned
good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves
by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the
poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government
did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
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The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being
corrected.
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Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.
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Conservative: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them
with others.
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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.
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I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat.
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Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
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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.
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Most liberals never lost sight of the potential for evil in big government. They have consistently opposed government power
in matters of personal and political belief. Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to
believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.
Conservatives are—and always have been—on the other side of both questions. They are much more prone than liberals to
limiting personal and political liberties, but they place the freedom of an individual to do as he pleases in the economic
realm at the top of their concerns. Social justice has held a lower priority for conservatives, from the days of Alexander
Hamilton when they favored strong government as a means of protecting their economic privileges to the days of Ronald Reagan
when they see government as an instrument of social justice and therefore a threat to their economic position.
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The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the
possession of the world ever since it was made.
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence,
no husbandry.
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.
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There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is
better."
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We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at
night.
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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.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to
believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the
taxpayer's dollar, then ... we are not that kind of "Liberal." But if by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and
not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people --
their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes
we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a
"Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
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