“Our great President Dwight D. Eisenhower has counseled us further: In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human."  Republican Party Platform, 1956 
 
“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.” 
 Letter from George Washington to the Roman Catholics in the United States, May 15th 1790

“You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.” Susan B. Anthony

“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.”
Jon Stewart

“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.” Benito Mussolini