Liberty IX

"[L]iberty is not a set of laws or a system of government; it is not a nation or a species of patriotism. Liberty is a state of mind before it is anything else. You can have a nation of wealth and power, but without this state of mind--this psychological 'America'--you are living in a deadening consciousness; with this state of mind, you can be in a darkened cell waiting for your torturer to arrive and yet inhabit a chainless space as wide as the sky".
--Naomi Wolf, "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries", page 5