I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? – Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt

A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. – Martin H. Fischer