Free Democratic Party is the name of several political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically based around liberalism. For more information on liberal parties, see liberalism worldwide.
Current parties with that name include:
- Free Democratic Party (Germany)
- Free Democratic Party (Liberia)
- FDP.The Liberals
Historical parties of the name include:
- Free Democratic Party (GDR)
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
Famous quotes containing the words democratic party, free, democratic and/or party:
“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons.... If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair.... We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”
—Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)
“Lucas: You’re the Democratic nominee for Senator.
John McKay: You make that sound like a death sentence.”
—Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Lucas (Peter Boyle)
“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)