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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.

John Stuart Mill

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILL

Crush Despotism Individual
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
JOHN STUART MILL

Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
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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Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Feeling Man Raise
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Government Necessary Power Reason Restriction
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Home Meaning Personal Realize Truth

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