Googling can be fun. Entering the phrase "Man is free if he needs to obey no person" provided two links. The first link attributed the principle to "Christianity" [http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/Scott.html]. The second link was a Lectures and Tutorials document of the University of Glascow School of Law [http://www.law.gla.ac.uk/Law/UploadedDocuments/Modules/8ZKV/2004/juris.doc] which attributed the quotation to Kant. Perhaps we should start creating googlean stemmata. Nicholas J. Theocarakis