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.
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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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