… is from page 31 of the late Brian Doherty’s superb 2007 book, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement:
Libertarianism arose in America from distinctly American roots. Yet in its soul it is a cosmopolitan philosophy, celebrating a world united in spirit, ideas, and trade, while reveling in the wide panorama of freely chosen local peculiarity that only relatively free polities can provide.


Libertarianism arose in America from distinctly American roots. Yet in its soul it is a cosmopolitan philosophy, celebrating a world united in spirit, ideas, and trade, while reveling in the wide panorama of freely chosen local peculiarity that only relatively free polities can provide.
