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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." — William Allen White
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." — Theodore Roosevelt
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Democracy's greatest feature isn't picking the right leader — it's surviving the wrong one. The succession principle means the state endures, and we show up again to vote. But that only works if we understand history well enough to recognize when that principle is under threat.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Both parties in this country once embraced the rich legacy of our liberal values — tolerance, openness, fairness, and welcoming all who would help build together this great American project.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"If we had a high enough tariff on the import of bananas it could become profitable to build hot houses and grow bananas in those hot houses. That would give employment. Would that be a sensible thing to do?" – Milton Friedman
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"It is not a success to fight on the winning side. It is a success to fight bravely for a principle even if one does not live to see it triumph." — Moorfield Storey
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Anyone? Anyone?
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
No Russian money, no Trump empire. No empire, no public profile. No profile, no presidency. And the Mueller investigation only scratched the surface because Mueller could only go after what was technically a crime.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"the liberal principle of tolerance does not extend to people that would undermine that liberal order." – Francis Fukuyama
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn." — Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Openness lies at the heart of liberalism. It lies at the heart of America as well, because we are a nation founded by liberals.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What Friedman described as the “invisible harms” of tariffs — higher prices, fewer jobs outside of protected industries — are becoming more visible by the day, and the “visible benefits” harder and harder to spot.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"It is time for true liberals to set aside their existing policy disagreements and come together in a renewed defense of core liberal democratic values—personal freedom, openness, pluralism, toleration, and human rights." — Shikha Dalmia
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Political leaders within liberal democracy value truth, even at the expense of support. It’s something leaders of all parties once shared in, if imperfectly realized, as part of our liberal American values and tradition.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Churches are becoming political organizations… It probably will not be long until the churches will divide as sharply upon political, as upon theological questions..." — Robert Ingersoll
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
America isn't a country that tolerates minorities. America is minorities. Every one of us belongs to one. If we allow any minority to lose its freedom by persecution or by prejudice, We are threatening our own freedom.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"More than any other country, our strength comes from our own immigrant heritage and our capacity to welcome those from other lands." — Ronald Reagan
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
They held no elected office, but they led a nation. They didn't seek special treatment -- just the equal treatment promised to them almost a century before. That is patriotism: the belief that America is not yet finished, and that we are strong enough to be self-critical.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This 1947 Anti-Nazi Film Is More Relevant Than Ever
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere." — Mortimer Adler
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Dictators hate democracy because they know what's a check on their power." – Jonathan Casey
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch." — Thurgood Marshall
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Jeremiah Johnson lays out the core values of liberalism.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Equal protection under the law is not a complicated promise. But when a man is denied his choice of counsel and members of his race are struck from his jury, that promise is broken. Not just in the Deep South -- in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character I have a dream today" – Martin Luther King Jr
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better." — Mitt Romney
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Men are not infallible; juries make mistakes; that is the problem... It is preferable to sentence ten murderers to life imprisonment, rather than sentence one innocent man to death." — Nathaniel Branden
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Enlightenment grew out of that saying… we can't continue to organize politically around a religion, around a specific way of practicing our faith because that just leads to war" – Jonathan Casey
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Being liberal means recognizing that some problems are too big for any one person to solve alone. Clean power, fast trains, more housing — these require collective action through government that actually works.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Had we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost." – Ronald Reagan
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Being liberal means believing every American deserves a real shot at a dignified life. That means affordable housing, health care, food, and education aren't luxuries — they're the baseline.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Liberalism isn't left or right. It's the idea that the state serves the people, not the other way around. Less regulation, lower taxes, quality public services, and the freedom for human ingenuity to drive prosperity.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Russia doesn't need its people to believe the government. It just needs them to believe nobody else either. When nationalism becomes 'I prefer our lies to their lies,' truth itself stops mattering. And that's not just a Russian problem anymore.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd." — Walter Lippmann
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Democracy's greatest feature isn't picking the right leader — it's surviving the wrong one. The succession principle means the state endures, and we show up again to vote. But that only works if we understand history well enough to recognize when that principle is under threat.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Being liberal isn't about ideology — it's about maintaining the normalcy and order that lets a democratic society actually function. Everyone else wants to drag us somewhere the United States was never meant to go.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too." — William Somerset Maugham
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both parties in this country once embraced the rich legacy of our liberal values — tolerance, openness, fairness, and welcoming all who would help build together this great American project.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Government of the people, by the people, for the people. That is not a radical idea. That is the founding premise of this country.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities..." — Sandra Day O’Connor
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"This cult of origins and roots is an insult to the potentiality of the soul" – Leon Wieseltier
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society." — Thomas Jefferson
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No Russian money, no Trump empire. No empire, no public profile. No profile, no presidency. And the Mueller investigation only scratched the surface because Mueller could only go after what was technically a crime.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Nazi Playbook for Dividing a Nation is Still Being Used Today
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"If we had a high enough tariff on the import of bananas it could become profitable to build hot houses and grow bananas in those hot houses. That would give employment. Would that be a sensible thing to do?" – Milton Friedman
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." — Voltaire
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war." – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"Why don't governments learn? Because governments never learn." – Milton Friedman
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Project Liberal Foundation @liberalfoundation.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"The whole point of the market price system is that it tells us of an infinite number of particular facts and demands that nobody knows." – Friedrich Hayek
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