Charles Kuralt Quotes

There's a lot of people that don't understand liberalism, there are a lot of people that I think, by definition, still need to be informed and educated that it isn't the soft, loving, compassionate stuff that it's portrayed to be. Trump speaks for himself. Who Trump is and what he's doing is not a mystery to anybody. It's the exact opposite of a mystery. It's in your face.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Liberalism is a series of grievances in addition to everything else that it is.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

I'm a right-wing fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we're talking about traditional conservatism - as opposed to today's conservatism, which no longer represents those views.

Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.

There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

You liberals are going to have to understand something: I'm not the one that wants to put limits on anybody. You people are.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.