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Wilhelm von Humboldt

The incapacity for freedom can only arise from a want of moral and intellectual power; to elevate this power is the only way to counteract this want; but to do this presupposes the exercise of that power, and this exercise presupposes the freedom which awakens spontaneous activity.

Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action (1792).

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