"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."-Jacques Barzun
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.” Edward Abbey
"A Liberal is a man afraid of losing his privileges. A Conservative is a man afraid OF his privileges."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson
"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy when part of the members are poor and miserable." - Adam Smith, Wealth Of Nations
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy” - James Madison
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." - W.E. Gladstone
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