Quote from Henry David Thoreau 

"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."

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, 1849 (original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment) http://www.jj-johnson.com/resistan.htm
 
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