"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

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"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."

Leadership, Civilrights, Years

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Public Opinion, Propaganda

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

Courage, Compassion, Congress, Idealism

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."

Work, Thought, Ideas, Hardwork

"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."

Politics, Blame

"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."

Spirit,

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

Business, Life, Cities, Danger

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."

Difference, Prophecy

"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."

Debate, Dissent, Freedom

"There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness."

Pioneer, Old, Wilderness

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"'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'"

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Liberal, Mind

"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television."

Michael Medved, American Journalist

Liberal, Public, Talk, Television

"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."

Robert Reich, American Economist

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"Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican."

Mark Hatfield, American Politician

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"I am certainly a liberal."

Kathleen Turner, American Actress

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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

Peter Gay, American Historian

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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."

Thomas Sowell, American Economist

Liberal, Play, Radical, Rules

"This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic."

Allen West, American Politician

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"If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face."

Paul Weyrich, American Critic

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