Liberal Quotes

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. (Leonard Bernstein)
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. View quote
Robert Frost
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative. View quote
Glenn Beck
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. View quote
Al Franken
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. View quote
Ovid
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. View quote
J. M. W. Turner
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. (Tallulah Bankhead)
Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. View quote
Ann Coulter
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. View quote
George Orwell
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. View quote
Matthew Henry
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. View quote
Max Eastman
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it. View quote
Paul Krugman
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. (Rudy Giuliani)
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of thecommunity are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. View quote
George Washington
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. View quote
Helen Thomas
The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. View quote
Bertrand Russell