Liberation (n.) of each single individual advances exactly as far as history turns into world history.
Liberation (n.) from a foreign yoke usually enlarges a people's character; Muscovy's, under Ivan III, seemed to shrink.
Liberation (n.) is an historical and not a mental act: slavery cannot be abolished without the steam-engine and the spinning-jenny.
Liberation (n.) by one estate requires another estate to be the notorious crime of the whole society, so that freeing oneself from it looks like everyone's self-liberation.
Liberation (n.) in the Russian style raised a servile relationship to the level of a law on the pretext of abolishing serfdom, and earned the applause of liberals throughout Europe.