Isaiah Berlin om liberalismens uppkomst

I think liberalism is essentially the belief of people who have lived on the same soil for a long time in comparative peace with each other. An English invention.

Isaiah Berlin i intervju med Steven Lukes, citerad i Jan-Werner Müllers artikel Fear and Freedom: On ‘Cold War Liberalism’ (European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2008, pp. 45-64).