The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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