Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
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.
I am personally quite liberal.
I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.