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 Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
—Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901)
“Shall the Spring dawn, and she still clad in smiles,
And with an unscathed brow,
Rest in the strong arms of her palm-crowned isles,
As fair and free as now?
We know not; in the temple of the Fates
God has inscribed her doom;
And, all untroubled in her faith, she waits
The triumph or the tomb.”
—Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
“All the isms are wasms—except one, the most powerful ism of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
“... the idea of a classless society is ... a disastrous mirage which cannot be maintained without tyranny of the few over the many. It is even more pernicious culturally than politically, not because the monolithic state forces the party line upon its intellectuals and artists, but because it has no social patterns to reflect.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)