Liberal Governance Quotes

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

There are times when one must govern liberally and times when one must be dictatorial.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction.