↑ ...when the growing complexity of industrial conditions required increasing government intervention in order to assure more equal opportunities, the liberal tradition, faithful to the goal rather than to the dogma, altered its view of the state ... there emerged the conception of a social welfare state, in which the national government had the express obligation to maintain high levels of employment in the economy, to supervise standards of life and labor, to regulate the methods of business competition, and to establish comprehensive patterns of social security.. Schelesinger Jr., Arthur. Liberalism in America: A Note for Europeans dari The Politics of Hope, Riverside Press, Boston, 1962
↑ Girvetz, Harry K. and Minogue Kenneth. Liberalism, Encyclopædia Britannica (online), p. 16, dicatat pada May 16, 2006.
↑ [A]t the heart of classical liberalism", wrote Nancy L. Rosenblum and Robert C. Post, is a prescription: "Nurture voluntary associations. Limit the size, and more importantly, the scope of government. So long as the state provides a basic rule of law that steers people away from destructive or parasitic ways of life and in the direction of productive ways of life, society runs itself. If you want people to flourish, let them run their own lives."Rosenblum, Nancy L. and Post, Robert C. Civil Society and Government, Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-08802-0, 2001, p. 26
↑ The ideology of the classical liberals argued against direct democracy "for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law. "Ryan, Alan. "Liberalism". A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, editors Goodin, Robert E. and Pettit, Philip. Blackwell Publishing, 1995, p.293.
↑ "...common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party." "Madison, James. Federalist Paper no. 10, 1787
↑ Quinton, Anthony. "Conservativism", A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, editors Goodin, Robert E. and Pettit, Philip. Blackwell Publishing, 1995, p. 246.
↑ "assumption about individuals being rational, self-interested and methodical in the pursuit of their goals." Drilane, Robert and Parkinson, Gary. Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences.
↑ Block, Walter. fr: "Adam Smith and the Left." Jeet Heer. National Post (December 3, 2001)
↑ "...rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law', because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819
