“The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources... They are the wellsprings of a free mind at liberty in a free society.”— Alfred Whitney Griswold
“The purpose of a liberal education is to make you a good companion to yourself.”— John Stapylton Habgood
“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”— Robert M. Hutchins