| "Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions." »Johann von Goethe |
| "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money." »Will Rogers |
| "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." »Robert Frost |
| "A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." »Willis Player |
| "To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea." »Robert Anton Wilson |
| "What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides." »Felix G. Rohatyn |
| "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest." »Barbara M. White |
| "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." »Al Franken |
| "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 |
| "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." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all." »Alan Simpson |
| "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality." »George Washington |
| "I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson |
| "By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary." »Jerry Rubin |
| "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." »Winston Churchill |
| "If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." »Jay Edward Adams |
| "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." »Alfred Whitney |
| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
| "What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking." »Tony Kushner |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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