A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
JOHN STUART MILLLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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 love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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