However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
JOHN STUART MILLSince the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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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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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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