Jesus wanted to liberate everyone from the law — from all laws. But this could not be achieved by abolishing or changing the law. He had to dethrone the law. He had to ensure that the law be man’s servant and not his master (Mark 2:27-28). Man must therefore take responsibility for his servant, the law, and use it to serve the needs of mankind.

It would be equally unreasonable to imagine that men at first threw themselves into the arms of an absolute master, without any conditions or consideration on his side; and that the first means contrived by jealous and unconquered men for their common safety was to run hand over head into slavery. In fact, why did they give themselves superiors, if it was not to be defended by them against oppression, and protected in their lives, liberties, and properties, which are in a manner the constitutional elements of their being?

To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Those in whom anger or desire or any other passion, or again any insidious vice holds sway, are entirely enslaved, while all whose life is regulated by law are free. And right reason is an infallible law engraved not by this mortal or that and, therefore, perishable as he, nor on parchment slabs, and, therefore, soulless as they, but by immortal nature on the immortal mind, never to perish.

A lesson which history should have taught us thousands of years ago was finally driven home. No man can wield absolute power over other men and still retain his own mind. For no matter how good his intentions are when he takes up the power, his alternate reason is that freedom, the freedom of other people and ultimately his own, terrifies him. Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power.

One might think that it must be quite clear to people not deprived of reason, that violence breeds violence; that the only means of deliverance from violence lies in not taking part in it. This method, one would think, is quite obvious. It is evident that a great majority of men can be enslaved by a small minority only if the enslaved themselves take part in their own enslavement. If people are enslaved, it is only because they either fight violence with violence or participate in violence for their own personal profit. Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut. They can be robbed, prevented from moving about, wounded or killed, but they cannot be enslaved: that is, made to act against their own reasonable will.

Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge ‘our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor’ not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. They are the lovers of law and order, who observe the law when the government breaks it.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Ah! there is not in the world a single man free; for he is either a slave to money or to fortune, or else the people in their thousands or the fear of public prosecution prevents him from following the dictates of his heart.

The holy mantra taught to the police powers and to the masses consists of these two words, "The Law." In reverent terms the judges, lawyers, politicians and media proclaim, "It's The Law." So what is this holy icon called "The Law?" . In 1461 Philip, Duke of Burgundy, having lost his hair in an illness, forced by decree 500 of his nobles to sacrifice their own locks as well. When Francis I of France decided to grow a beard to conceal a scar on his chin, he forced his whole male population by law to follow suit. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia enforced a tax on those with beards, which would be hacked off on the spot if seen in public without the required tax receipt. But that hardly scratches the surface of the criminal enterprise known as "The Law." "The Law" is codified slavery. It is what the rich, powerful and clever use to enslave the masses. Often "The Law" is put into written form, such as the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, so-called criminal codes, etc. This is done to deceive the sheep, for "The Law" has never applied to the rulers. "The Law" is not for Ted Kennedy, or Bill Clinton, or O.J. Simpson, nor is it for the politicians who kill tens or hundreds of millions in their never-ending wars. "The Law" is not for Lon Horiuchi, who shot an innocent woman's head off as she nursed her baby. "The Law" does not restrict the rulers or their favorites, only their victims.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.