From “The Amazing Liberal Mind” (1938) by Albert Jay Nock:

A Liberal is dangerous for the same reason Amiel thought women are dangerous. A woman, Amiel says, is “sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised towards her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it.” This may or may not be a true bill against women – I am not entitled to an opinion about that – but I have observed Liberals closely for many years with ever-increasing wonder and amazement, and I am prepared to say that Amiel’s sentence fits them like a poultice.

See Things as They Are by Albert Jay Nock at IWP Books.