Tom Wolfe
Journalist, Novelist
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
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Liberalism
46 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it."
Malcolm Bradbury
Novelist, Academic
"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."
Jack Nicholson
Actor, Filmmaker
"Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals."
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