“This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.”
![“The basis of freedom as well are [sic] the restraints commonly accepted by the members of the group in which the rules of morals prevail. The demand for ‘liberation’ from these restraints is an attack on all liberty possible among human beings.” quote by Friedrich A. Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c04/friedrich-a-hayek-29346_character_the-basis-of-freedom-as-well-are-sic-the_797636.jpg)
