“They can only set free men freeAnd there is no need of that.Free men set themselves free.”
“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
“When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.”
“People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.”
“Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family, church, town, class, guild; yet they wear, instead, the chains of the state, and they expire of ennui or stifling lone lines.”
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”