A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
Frank Rizzo

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
William Kunstler

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

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

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

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.
Robert Frost

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
Gregory Nunn

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
Frank Dane

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques Barzun

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

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 K. Simpson

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.
Lauren Graham