… is from page 694 of philosopher Chandran Kukathas’s October 1998 Political Theory paper, “Liberalism and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Indifference“; by “liberalism” Chandran of course means classical liberalism rather than the simple-minded ideology of statism that today more and more calls itself “Progressivism”:
Liberalism does not care who has power; nor does it care how power is acquired. All that matters is that the members of society are free to pursue their various ends, and that the polity is able to accommodate all peacefully.
