Famous Liberal Republicans
- Charles Francis Adams, Sr., former congressman and ambassador, son of President John Quincy Adams.
- B. Gratz Brown, a governor of Missouri, vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1872.
- Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, former U.S. Senator from Ohio and treasury secretary.
- David Davis, U.S. Supreme Court justice, later senator from Illinois.
- Reuben Fenton, while U.S. Senator from New York
- Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, presidential candidate in the election of 1872.
- Carl Schurz, former ambassador, Civil War general, power-broker, and senator from Missouri.
- Charles Sumner, senator from Massachusetts, anti-slavery advocate
- Nathaniel P. Banks, chairman of the house Committee on Foreign Affairs and former Speaker.
- George Washington Julian, congressman from Indiana, women's suffrage advocate
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“The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country’s God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.”
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