“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
Mark Twain

“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Robert Anton Wilson

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

“A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.”
Willis Player

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“The liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.”
Lenny Bruce

“Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.”
Dick Gregory

“A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he’s right too soon.”
Gregory Nunn

“Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.”
Mort Sahl

“The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don’t know how bad the stable is going to smell.”
T. C. Douglas

“Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.”
Dennis Prager

“Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They believe in freedom so fervently that they think it should be compulsory. They believe that the poor and ignorant are victims of an unfair system and that their circumstances can be improved if we give them help. Republicans (I think to myself) are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won’t work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”
Andy Rooney

“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”
Aristotle

“You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn’t have had the ten commandments. We’d have had the ten suggestions.”
Christopher Bigsby and Malcolm Bradbury

“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They’re the kind of people who’d stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn’t bother to stop because they’d want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.”
Dave Barry

“The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”
G.K. Chesterton

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”
George Washington

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially for the lower classes of people, are so extremely wise and useful that to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”
John Adams

“Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.”
Jose Ortega Y Gasset