All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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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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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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