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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“To take the word society first. It emphasises the individual, but the individual in conjunction with other men and women.” Jo Grimond

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Liberalism ...springs from the philosophy of Locke and Hume. A philosophy based on the individual and their experience. A philosophy profoundly suspicious of deities, innate ideas and dogma. A philosophy which finds that all our knowledge comes from experience.” Jo Grimond

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“How do you get to be a Liberal Democrat MP? It’s not as if you can be flown into a safe seat – because there aren’t any. So how do you become one? By being a nutter and working your socks off and doing the traditional Liberal Democrat grass roots building up a seat from nothing process.” Tim Farron

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“But the basis of my Liberalism is that… I am a lover of liberty; and that liberty which I value for myself, I value for every human being in proportion to their means and opportunities.” William Gladstone

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." Edward Gibbon

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Liberals remain steadfast because they know in their very bones that the institutions of freedom would suffer untold damage if their organisations were allowed to collapse.” Philip Fothergill

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“I prefer to think of myself as a radical liberal for whom the social entitlements of citizenship are as important a condition of progress as the opportunities for choice which require entrepreneurial initiative and an innovative spirit.” Ralf Dahrendorf

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The repeal of the corn laws will be carried when people understand it. And when you understand it, if you are an honest person, you will feel it, if you feel it, at least as I have, you will not be able to be quiet without doing something to put down this great injustice.” Richard Cobden

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The great problem of our civilisation is still unsolved. We have to account for and to grapple with the mass of misery and destitution in our midst, co-existent as it is with the evidence of abundant wealth and teeming prosperity." Joseph Chamberlain. Still the same problem today.

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“I am going to lead the party to crusade against poverty – the poverty of income and the poverty of aspiration. Fairness and freedom are the inalienable right of every citizen.” Menzies Campbell

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Fundamental is belief in the freedom of every individual. That is threatened from many directions: by over-mighty states, by private concentrations of power, by the actions of other individuals or by circumstances which leave the individual without access to power or opportunity." Alan Beith

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“[I] will be a Liberal Democrat for as long as the party ... preaches – and more importantly practises – liberal democracy to empower people. The test of our success is how well we overcome the poverty, ignorance and conformity which it is the duty of radical politicians to challenge.” Simon Hughes

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“What happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful.” Paul Farmer

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“The justification for community politics lies in the belief that the key to releasing the potential of each person as a unique individual lies in bringing together all individuals in voluntary, mutual and co-operative enterprise within relevant communities.” Bernard Greaves and Gordon Lishman

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A quote for our times, very definitely for our times. "So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes to build up great fortunes, to ... and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent." Henry George

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Co-operation, to be real, must be spontaneous. The spirit of fellowship cannot be enforced. Inter-dependence must be based on independence. Neither the ant-heap nor the beehive is a model for man” Elliott Dodds

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Mature citizens demand direct participation in their affairs… we will not have the new liberty unless we create a new kind of effective general public.” Ralf Dahrendorf

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common [people].” William Beveridge

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“No society is free unless it is governed by two interrelated principles: first, that no power but only rights can be regarded as absolute; second, that there are frontiers within which [people] should be inviolable.” Isaiah Berlin

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“The only object of government ought to be the greatest possible happiness of the community … by creating rights, which it confers upon individuals: rights of personal security, rights of protection for honour, rights of property, rights of receiving aid in case of need.” Jeremy Bentham

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Has Andy Burnham been reading Alan Beith? “The instinct of a Liberal is to distribute power as widely as possible, and to hold to account all those who exercise it.” Alan Beith

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We're with Paddy. “The simple liberal demand that every citizen should be enabled to live their life to the full.” Paddy Ashdown

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Utopianism is at all times a threat to freedom, and a party concerned with liberty must be concerned not to impose a single ideal but to hold the ring between different ideals.” Conrad Russell

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“The virtues in democratic life – community, solidarity, trust, civic friendship – these virtues are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are, rather, the muscles that develop and grow stronger with use.” Michael Sandel

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Democracy .. requires that citizens share in a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another... in the course of everyday life. For this is how we learn to negotiate and abide our differences." Michael Sandel

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“There can be no peace without justice. Nor any justice if the government instituted for the good of a nation be turned to its ruin.” Algernon Sidney

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“I am sure that peace cannot be bought by sacrifices to aggressive military powers at the expense of small and weak nations. ...Peace must be built upon justice buttressed by force, but force must be the servant, not the master, of justice.” Archibald Sinclair

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's." Mark Twain

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Liberalism is often described as an attitude of mind or a faith. As such it is to be found in every generation and every age and in all classes of society. ... it never perishes; it never has and never will become extinct.” Donald Wade

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“Dictatorships do not primarily arise from the ambitions of wicked men. Lust for power is very often the symptom of a malaise in the body politic. Dictatorships arise when democracy ceases to serve the interests of the ordinary people” Jo Grimond

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Ensuring the future wellbeing of our people, as well as the capacity of our planet to sustain life, requires a level of global co-operation never before seen... insistence on national sovereignty simple fans the flames of global anarchy." Graham Watson

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Intervention, where it can be shown to be effective, is justified by an enabling state that seeks to empower its citizens and not simply to stand by as a passive spectator and occasional policeman.” Steve Webb

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since #Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since #Hiroshima we know what is at stake." Viktor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness." Anne Frank, born this day 1929

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“At present ... freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course... We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right. But this right has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through lakes of blood.” J D Bury 1912

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"The aim of liberalism is always liberty - and liberty for more people. This constant liberal aim springs naturally from something fundamental in liberal philosophy, that is, the belief in the value of individual personality." Donald Wade

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"And once you view full blooded liberalism as implying positive action to ensure equality of opportunity and the maximising of individual potential, you will find as your fellow travellers those whose starting point was a passion for social justice." Steve Webb

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“My aim in politics is to advance and protect the liberty of the individual...That, in turn, means ensuring that all people have the maximum life chances and the maximum opportunities to make the most of their natural abilities, whatever their circumstances” Charles Kennedy

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“If they try to normalize, let us try to denormalize. Let us hold on to facts, truths, values, norms, arrangements that are going to be under siege. Let us not forget what happened and why.” Rebecca Solnit

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edmund Burke

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“A core insight of liberalism is that, if people are to live together well in conditions of freedom, power always needs to be dispersed, cross-examined and controlled.” Timothy Garton Ash

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

“a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it” Richard Tawney

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“We believe in the intrinsic value of every human being, and we are deeply optimistic about people. We believe that our role – and the role of government – is to ensure they have the power and freedom to thrive and fulfil their potential.” Leading the Way policy review 2025

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula Le Guin

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Something for all of us to remind ourselves of frequently: “I am made unlike anyone I have ever met; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world. I may be no better, but I am different.” Rousseau

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“Reason... teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.” Locke

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” Milton

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“Under whatever political institutions we live, there is a circle around every individual human being which no government be it that of the one, the few or the many, ought to be permitted to overstep.” John Stuart Mill.

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"Liberalism properly conceived is a repository of political sense and practical problem solving." Adrian Wooldridge

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Liberal Quotes @liberalquotes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

whenever the use of the market might undermine social liberalism – namely a society that protects effective freedom for all … – the market has to give way. The political goals of liberalism are always more important than any particular method of achieving them.” David Howarth

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