As long as the role of government is limited, and as long people are free to operate within the informal social arrangements of a non-regimented, non-stratified society there's no tension between equality of opportunity and liberty
In the Declaration of Independence a new thing entered the world, a country founded upon the idea of equality. The Old World consisted of societies built upon hereditary class and entrenched privilege. Beginning with words that still burn within the breast of Patriots, this great document proclaims two types of equality.