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Henry David Thoreau1817–1862

There will never be a really free and enlightened State, until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau on freedom

Civil Disobedience (1849)

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