"I never thought I would see the day when America (which is based on the idea of liberty, from which the word Liberal …"

"[W]e claim to start from and to maintain in all our political action this fundamental principle—that the interests of…"

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed."

"The doctrine was liberalism, which criticised and finally demolished the traditional conception of the nation-state a…"

"The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism."

"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, infi…"

"He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of…"

"What do we mean by this Liberalism of which we talk? … I should say it means the acknowledgement in practical life of…"

"In retrospect it was important to have sincere liberals around. Someone needs to fret about the excesses of capitalis…"

"Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domesti…"