For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being.
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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