All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILLIn 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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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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 is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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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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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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