Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLThe moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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 great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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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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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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