Cicero

"Peace is liberty in tranquility."

-- Cicero, Roman philosopher.
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Carroll Quigley

"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."

-- Carroll Quigley, American historian.
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Synonyms

Synonyms for the term Liberal from Thesaurus.com: advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, left, lenient, magnanimous, permissive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, tolerant, unbiased, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced, libertarian, reformist, unbigoted.
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Jay Leno

"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up."

-- Jay Leno, American entertainer.
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NPR

National Public Radio was founded on this date in 1970. NPR was established with 30 employees and 90 public radio stations as charter members. The network first aired in April, 1971, covering the United States Senate hearings on the Vietnam War. NPR's classic flagships staples are its drive-time news broadcasts Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
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Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" challenges the wisdom of Clinton-era welfare reform for 12 million affected women. The noted author and culture critic reports on her effort to find a comparable $6 to $7 an hour job --working in restaurants, nursing homes, and Wal-Mart-- while making ends meet.
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Fox News

American adults believe that the three major broadcast networks deliver news with a bias in favor of liberals, according to a recent Rasmussen national telephone survey. Similar results were found for CNN and National Public Radio. The one major exception to the belief that media outlets have a liberal bias: Fox News.
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Robert Scheer

"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."

-- Robert Scheer, American journalist.
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The Netherlands

The Netherlands has the reputation for being the most liberal country in the world. It is well-known for accepting social practices that are not generally accepted in other parts of the world. Liberal policies toward drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, and euthanasia, as well as its free market capitalism, make it the most progressive nation according to many surveys.
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Carl Levin

"The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security."

-- Carl Levin, United States Senator.
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Bill Moyers

"America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up."

-- Bill Moyers, American journalist and commentator.
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Addicted to War

The U.S. has been involved in more recent wars than any other country. Joel Andreas' book "Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism" is a 77-page comic format that presents the sordid history of U.S. wars and the chronic attachment to military conflict. Andreas explains who benefits from these military adventures, who pays and who dies.
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Bob Kerrey

"There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others."

-- Bob Kerrey, United States Senator.
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Loving v. Virginia

Mildred and Richard Loving were an interracial couple married in 1958 and criminally charged in Virginia, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia. The 1967 Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia unanimously declared these laws unconstitutional, effectively ending all race-based marriage restrictions in the United States.
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The American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union was established in 1920. The ACLU is the guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution guarantees. The ACLU has been influential in the evolution of U.S. Constitutional law through several lawsuits. There are over 500,000 members of the ACLU.
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Joe Conason

"Liberal policies made America the freest, wealthiest, most successful and most powerful nation in human history. Conservatism in power always threatens to undo that national progress, and is almost always frustrated by the innate decency and democratic instincts of the American people."

-- Joe Conason, American author and journalist.
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New Deal

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal represented a broad package of laws and economic programs put forth during the height of the Great Depression. The New Deal affected banking, industry, agriculture and labor reform. It created several new federal agencies, including the Social Security system, Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Housing Administration, and Fannie Mae.
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Howard Dean

"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for."

-- Howard Dean, American politician.
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Thomas Paine

The roots of modern American liberalism can be traced to American revolutionary Thomas Paine. Paine emigrated from England and was highly influential in both the American and French revolutions in the 18th century. He was an early advocate of progressive taxation and also proposed universal, free public education, a guaranteed minimum income, and other democratic ideas.
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Thomas Friedman

"The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist."

-- Thomas Friedman, American author and journalist.
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Nancy Pelosi

Representative Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives when she was elected as Speaker in January 2007. Pelosi was raised in a political family in Baltimore, Maryland, her father served as a U.S. Congressman and her brother as Mayor of Baltimore. Pelosi was first elected to congress in 1987, representing parts of San Francisco city and county.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero

"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.”

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman philosopher.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."

-- Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Secretary of State.
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The Family and Medical Leave Act

The Family and Medical Leave Act was signed by President Bill Clinton on this day in 1993. The legislation allows employees to take job-protected unpaid leave due to a serious health condition to care for a sick family member, or to care for a new child. The new law protected 50 million Americans from having to choose between the job they need and the family they love.
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Stephanie Miller

Stephanie Miller has been hosting her national progressive radio talk show since September 2004. The former stand-up comedian and daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate William Miller presents daily political satire, observational comedy and wit. Her daily radio show is carried by XM Radio's Left Channel. Vest Stephanie online at stephaniemiller.com.
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"The Liberal"

"The Liberal" magazine is dedicated to a renaissance in liberal politics and the liberal arts. Available online and in print, the British magazine reports political and economic analysis, publishes philosophical essays, poetry, music scores, photography, as well as short fiction from around the world. See theliberal.co.uk.
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Morris Raphael Cohen

"Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability."

-- Morris Raphael Cohen, Jewish philosopher.
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On this day in 1960

On this day in 1960, four black students sat at the counter of a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina. Although refused service, the event triggers similar actions throughout the South. Six-months later, the four students who began the protests are served lunch at the same Woolworth's lunch counter.
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