In Defense of Liberty and Democracy

The final end of the State consists not in dominating over men, restraining them by fear, subjecting them to the will of others. Rather it has for its end so to act that its citizens shall in security develop soul and body and make free use of their reason. For the true end of the State is Liberty.

Baruch Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (1670)

The state exists for the individual, not the other way around.