A liberal politician is a man who looks to the future and not to the
past; he looks for progress; he desires to see the whole nation raised;
he desires to go on from better things to better things, and he is not
afraid of new things; he holds that every institution must be tried by
its worth and its value to the nation;—he holds above all things that
there should be equality before the law for every institution, for
every society, and for every individual citizen.