Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1044 |
| AUTHOR: | Burton Kendall Wheeler (1882–1975) |
| QUOTATION: | What bothers me about today’s “liberals” is this: through the ages, those called liberal fought to take the power away from the kings and the emperors and to give it to the parliaments; now it is the “liberals” who are anxious to give more and more power to the executive, at the expense of the legislative branch. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Wheeler served in Congress 1923–1947. |
| SUBJECTS: | Liberals |