“The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTwoPartyTraditionConservativeLiberal Party Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.” BelieveCountryI BelieveLeadershipPartyTeamCoalitionsJuliaLiberal Party Author:Kevin Andrews
“Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.” TryingBigsJobsCoursesPartyCompanyMediaReaderBest JobPackersLiberal Party Author:Margo Kingston
“I think that the principle of the Conservative Party is jealousy of liberty and of the people, only qualified by fear; but I think the principle of the Liberal Party is trust in the people, only qualified by prudence.” PeopleThinkingPartyLibertyPrinciplesConservativePrudenceQualifiedConservative PartyLiberal Party Author:William E. Gladstone
“As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.” ActionPastPresidentPartyRegretMembersHotelOfficersSaddenedManilaLiberal Party Author:Florencio Abad
“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.” IfsMenWould BePartyExistenceCasesElementsBenefitsThirdsDifficultyStrongerOccasionsCombinationLabourSwingsIntroducingLabour PartyPendulumsThird PartiesLiberal Party Author:Austen Chamberlain
“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansCausesHuman BeingsPartyAcceptingPositionPlanetsMajorityLiberal Party Author:Nick Minchin
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.” PeopleYearsHas BeensPartyGroupsMajorityConservativeMinoritiesBrotherhoodEgyptCredibilityEgyptianMuslim BrotherhoodLiberal Party Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.” LongPartySupportRemainsMajorityDemocraticDemocratic PartyLiberal Party Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7
“The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.” ThinkingMindMatterGovernmentChangeChancePartyBehindsDeserveMinistersPrimePrime MinisterSpillsChanging Your MindLiberal Party Author:Tony Abbott
“I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.” YearsPartyYears AgoReformThirtyReformationThirty YearsLiberal PartyGreat Liberal Author:John Bright
“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.” MenShouldBelieveDesirePassionLeftWaterPartyVirtueCuttingMoralityBattleLowsRootsStrongerRateRageTriumphDullBreastsLabourPrizeHistorianQuartersPrestigeExaltationLabour PartyLiberal Party Book:Orlando: A Biography Source: Orlando: A Biography