Liberal Quotes

I'm a liberal and damn proud to admit it, here are some of my favorite liberal quotes:

“You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.” - Harry S. Truman 

“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.” - Robert Kennedy 

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.” - Ronald Reagan 

“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.” - Ronald Reagan 

“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." - Franklin D. Roosevelt 

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." - John F. Kennedy

“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” - Hubert Humphrey

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.” - Woodrow Wilson

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” - John F. Kennedy

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”  -Abraham Lincoln

“It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” - Hubert H. Humphrey

“I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very marked fashion for the gigantic incomes.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”  - Theodore Roosevelt

 “Today’s so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means. They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. It’s not a conservative issue at all.” - Barry Goldwater 

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Once you leave the womb, conservatives don’t care about you until you reach military age. Then you’re just what they’re looking for." - George Carlin

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

 “Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” -  John F. Kennedy

 “While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.” - Barry Goldwater

"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities?  It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time." - George Carlin