"From the lowest to the highest creatures, intelligence
    progresses by acts of discrimination; and it continues so to
    progress among men, from the most ignorant to the most 
    cultured."

   "Undeveloped intellectual vision is just as indiscriminating 
    and erroneous in its classings as undeveloped physical 
    vision."

   "If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their 
    liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people 
    by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain
    free because the despotism was of their own making? Are the 
    coercive edicts issued by him to be regarded as legitimate 
    because they are the ultimate outcome of their own votes?"

    - Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), The Man versus the State (1884)