The Blog Less Traveled

Below are a few of my favorite quotes regarding Liberals. I’ve included the author, if known.

• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things–war and hunger and date rape–liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things… It’s a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don’t have to be brave, smart, strong, or even lucky to join it; you just have to be liberal. (P.J. O’Rourke)
• A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25-foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed.
• A man with both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
• Those who call themselves “liberals” today are asking for policies which are precisely the opposite of those policies which the liberals of the nineteenth century advocated in their liberal programs. The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom from imprisonment without trial — that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions. (Ludwig von Mises)
• If you’re a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you’re a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
• If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain. (Winston Churchill)
• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society’s losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those job skills, achieve success. (Neal Boortz)
• The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. (Neal Boortz)
• A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment. (Willis Player)
• Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. (Dennis Prager)
• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money. (G. Gordon Liddy)
• I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money. (Will Rogers)
• Bigot-A person who wins an argument with a liberal. (Rush Limbaugh)
• Left has come to represent increasing government control. The extreme leftist typically seeks total government. Working their way toward total government power are the Communists, socialists, fascists, and modern liberals who advocate government solutions for every real or imagined problem. (John F. McManus)
• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. (Lionel Trilling)
• One difference between a liberal and a pickpocket is that if you demand your money back from a pickpocket, he won’t question your motives.