Free Democratic Party is the name of several political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically based around liberalism. For more information on liberal parties, see liberalism worldwide.
Current parties with that name include:
- Free Democratic Party (Germany)
- Free Democratic Party (Liberia)
- FDP.The Liberals
Historical parties of the name include:
- Free Democratic Party (GDR)
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland
Famous quotes containing the words democratic party, free, democratic and/or party:
“The Republican party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.”
—Ignatius Donnelly (1831–1901)
“Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)