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If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares…

— John F. Kennedy

There is no such thing as a liberal...There hasn't been for a long, long time. I never use the word and you shouldn't either…

— Alexander Beresford Hope

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a…

— Leonard Bernstein

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It's very important to say that what I mean when I say 'liberal' is liberal in the 19th-century British sense. Pro-market, pro-individual, freedom, pro-openness.…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But…

— Janeane Garofalo

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy…

— Gore Vidal

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or…

— Walter Cronkite

“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people to believe,…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted…

— Paul Krugman

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did not know…

— Nat Hentoff