Liberalism

"Liberal Democrats share a philosophy of 'no fault' living, premised upon the nihilistic belief that we are helpless pawns in this life -- that the forces of nature and society around us are overwhelming -- that we are essentially victims. ...Since there is no grand design or purpose to the universe, since life itself is nothing more than an accident, sin and guilt are burdens we don't have to carry. In effect, the rules governing man's behavior can be whatever we want them to be. This vision is inconsistent with religious faith, that is why liberals work assiduously to censor religious expression and substitute the laws of the State for those of the Creator of the Universe."
        --Linda Bowles

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."
        --Peter Brimelow, [and others] National Review 02/01/93

"The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. This is not a charge. My opinion of that revolution is not at issue. It is a statement of fact that need startle no one who has voted for that revolution in whole or in part, and, consciously or unconsciously, a majority of the nation has so voted for years. It was the forces of that revolution that I struck at the point of its struggle for power.... No one could have been more dismayed than I at what I had hit, for though I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of its struggle to keep and advance its political power."
        --Whittaker Chambers, 1952

"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy."
        --John Derbyshire

"The tone and tendency of liberalism . . . is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress."
        --Benjamin Disraeli

"The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."
        --T. S. Eliot

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
        --Robert Frost

"Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite."
        --Dean Koontz, The Face of Fear

"One tragic irony of liberalism is that it robs human beings of their dignity by legislating and regulating away their individuality and liberties all in the name of humanity. "
        --David Limbaugh

"Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true."
        --H. L. Mencken

"No one has the right to thrust himself into the affairs of others in order to further their interest, and no one ought, when he has his own interests in view, to pretend that he is acting selflessly only in the interests of others."
        --Ludwig von Mises

"Because the American system is so clearly and positively anti-socialist few Americans are willing to admit to that political affiliation, but prefer to seek the same end of centralized and unified government power under more euphonious labels."
        --Felix Morley, Freedom and Federalism

"The principle 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. . . . Itīs a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you donīt have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal."
        --P.J. O'Rourke

"If the economic argument for statist liberalism has evaporated, the impulse to run other people's lives which underlies it remains. The politicians and bureaucrats who seek to control us now do so on different and more slippery grounds."
        --John O'Sullivan

"Today the old-fashioned liberal pretension of equality is dead. Replacing it is naked power and the use of government to protect and expand the privileged status of the Democratic Party and its courtiers and constituents. Liberals have become reactionaries, behaving as kings did centuries ago by robbing their opponents to reward their vassals. Liberals now believe that the main purpose of government is to play favorites, to bring down their foes and give privileges to their friends."
        --Lowell Ponte

"The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them."
        --Franklin D. Roosevelt