" In the republican view, there is certainly a place for the negative liberty—immunity from oppression by the government or any other powerful organization or individual—that liberalism puts at the front of its political demands. But this liberty cannot be preserved unless the citizenry is active in preserving it. In effect, one republican complaint is that liberalism is unable to offer a coherent story about how liberal goals are to be secured, while the other is that liberalism in action tends to turn individuals in on themselves, encourages them to quit the public stage and concentrate only on domestic or economic goals. "

― Alan Ryan , The Making of Modern Liberalism