Thinkers such as John Rawls defended liberal principles with more argument.
Mrs Williams said that if Wales were to be given income tax varying powers, the Welsh Liberal Democrats would want to lower the basic income tax rate to make the tax system fairer and continue Lloyd George's progressive and Liberal principles.
That can be done, because conservative principles, not liberal dogma, best reflect the ideals that made this nation great.
If this were to happen, and a hung parliament were the result, then I presume the first instinct of the Liberal Democrats would be to apply the principles of proportional representation and try to form a government with the Conservatives?
Countries with restrictive positions are unwilling to loosen up, while the more liberal do not want to compromise their humanitarian principles by tightening their rules.
Liberal Arab reformers are unwilling to fight for their principles.
But this stems from the liberal press stymieing Republicans more than anything resembling adherence to principles.
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Factors in his decision no doubt include the election of President Obama, who would be more likely to appoint a successor attuned to the principles Souter has followed as a moderate-to-liberal member of the court's more liberal bloc over the past two decades.
However, he told me that the latest amendments to his health bill - which he is still working on with the Liberal Democrats - do not represent a change to the legislation's underlying principles.
But the ideologically stubborn and rigid President Obama and his liberal congressional majorities have not only refused to follow any of the proven policies and principles of economic prosperity.
Today, most newspaper publishers follow the principles of objectivity (as they see it), trying to achieve a liberal- conservative "balance" even in their opinion columns.
Her principles, to which she was always truthful, were those of a good old-fashioned liberal.
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