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“# Political independence, as the right to owe his existence and continuance in society not to the arbitrary will of another, but to his own rights and powers as a member of the commonwealth.”

— Immanuel Kant

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Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant
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Context

Science of Right (1797)

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Kant, Immanuel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant

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