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.


Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals (ed. Hackett Publishing, 1983) - ISBN: 9781603847186

Immanuel Kant Quotes

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function....

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function....

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function....

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function....