The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
JOHN STUART MILLIf 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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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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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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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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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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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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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