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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
JOHN STUART MILL

Experience Forever History Ideas Persecution Truth
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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Community Government Interesting Reason Worst
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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Economy Income Industry Neighbor Save Tax
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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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Age Dare Independent Man Race Service
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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Easy Home Land Mistake Money Way Wealth
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Ambition Creation Democracy Desire Domination Grade Institution Politics Society Spirit
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Art Capability Circumstance Life Rule
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Action Himself Individual Person
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work

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