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… is from page 23 of F.A. Hayek’s 1973 essay “Liberalism” as this essay appears as chapter one of Essays on Liberalism and the Economy [2] (2022), which is volume 18 (expertly edited by Paul Lewis), of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek [3]:
The liberal conception of freedom has often been described as a merely negative conception, and rightly so. Like peace and justice, it refers to the absence of an evil, to a condition opening opportunities but not assuring particular benefits; though it was expected to enhance the probability that the means needed for the purposes pursued by the different individuals would be available. The liberal demand for freedom is thus a demand for the removal of all man-made obstacles to individual efforts, not a claim that the community or the state should supply particular goods.