Able Quote by Peter Gay

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

— Chester Bowles

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than…

— Will Rogers

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

— Walter Cronkite

When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons.…

— Greg Gutfeld

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

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my…

— Paul Begala

A liberal is a conservative whose conscience is on display

— Jerome Gioia

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

— John Calvin

“On the other hand, I am not a liberal. The notion that man is a rational creature who arrives at reasonable solutions to knotty…

— Norman Mailer

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Humans can intuitively sense through a variety of subtle clues (i.e., dress, accent, gestures) when another person possesses a mix of cultural and psychological…

— Guillermo Jimenez