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JOHN STUART MILLThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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