David Hackett Fischer - The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

- David Hackett Fischer

source: David Hackett Fischer (1991). “Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America”, p.537, Oxford University Press

topic: Ideas, Diversity, Creative, Creative Tension, American Liberty