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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
    Jalal ad-Din Rumi

  • #2
    “Books and minds only work when they're open.”
    James Dewar

  • #3
    Glenn Greenwald
    “It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.”
    Glenn Greenwald

  • #4
    Stephen Colbert
    “It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
    Stephen Colbert

  • #5
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    “Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #6
    Paul Krugman
    “I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”
    Paul Krugman

  • #7
    Walter Cronkite
    “I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."

    [Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973]”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #9
    George Seldes
    “No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”
    George Seldes

  • #10
    “[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”
    Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

  • #11
    Ludwig von Mises
    “Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.”
    Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

  • #12
    Montesquieu
    “Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.”
    Montesquieu

  • #13
    Mario Cuomo
    “Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.”
    Mario Cuomo, Reason to Believe: A Keen Assessment of Who We Are and an Inspiring Vision of What We Could Be



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