I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
JOHN STUART MILLWe 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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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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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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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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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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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 not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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 person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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