لن تكون هناك دولةٌ حرّةٌ ومستنيرة حقًّا، حتى تعترف الدولةُ بالفرد قوةً أعلى ومستقلّة، تنبثق منها كلُّ سلطتها وكلُّ نفوذها.

“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.”Henry David Thoreau — Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown (2014)