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The final step in the making of a liberal is conviction that liberty has priority over all other concerns and aspirations; that at the community level, all members of it must equally enjoy as much liberty as is compatible with the functioning and preservation of the community itself; that reasonableness, the dignity of the individual, moral (and thus legal and political) equality and tolerance are corner-stones of any way of life founded on liberty.
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© 1977 Massimo Salvadori
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Salvadori, M. (1977). Liberal Institutions. In: The Liberal Heresy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15825-6_3
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