Historical Social Liberal Parties and Organizations
- Belgium: Spirit
- Lithuania: New Union (Social Liberals)
- Moldova: Our Moldova Alliance
- Netherlands: Free-thinking Democratic League
Read more about this topic: Social Liberalism
Famous quotes containing the words historical, social, liberal and/or parties:
“Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybodys mom in that she knows whats best for us. But if you look at the historical recordKrakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the agesyou have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“... feminism is the attempt of women to grow up, to accept the responsibilities of life, to outgrow those characteristics of childhoodselfishness and unworldlinessthat we require our boys to outgrow, but that we permit and by our social system encourage our girls to retain.”
—Henrietta Rodman (1878?)
“The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)