Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
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.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
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