One of the more fundamental definitions is that liberalism os openness to progress and change. Liberalism is rooted in the idea of looking ahead instead of looking behind. For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society. Its strength is drawn from the will of free people committed to great ends and peacefully striving to meet them. Liberals believe that group survival is more efficient than individual survival.
Liberals is probably the strongest advocates of democracy.
When power or wealth concentrates too heavily in too few hands in society, democracy is useful for dispersing much of that power back to the people. In other words when enough voters become discontented with the status quo, they vote to change it. Liberalism is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man s ability through the experiences of his reason and judgement to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves. Grolier Incorporated, Connecticut 1997. This page was engineered to function most effectively within the confines of the web browser Netscape 3.01 or higher.