You *do* realize that the common meaning of the word LIBERAL was CHANGED circa 1900?
Regard$,
--MJ
""Classical liberalism" is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qualifying "classical" is now usually necessary, in English-speaking countries at least (but not, for instance, in France), because liberalism has come to be associated with wide-ranging interferences with private property and the market on behalf of egalitarian goals. This version of liberalism -- if such it can still be called -- is sometimes designated as "social," or (erroneously) "modern" or the "new," liberalism. Here we shall use liberalism to signify the classical variety." -- Ralph Raico
At 08:38 AM 10/20/2010, you wrote:
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that--
all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community
are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope
ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and
liberality."
~ George Washington
“The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud
themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and
liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation,” Washington wrote. “All
possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It
is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the
indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise
of their inherent national gifts. For happily the Government of the
United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no
assistance requires only that they who live under its protection
should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all
occasions their effectual support.” ~ George Washington
"....if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind,
someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who
cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing,
their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties..
if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a
liberal. "
~ John F. Kennedy
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