Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILLThe fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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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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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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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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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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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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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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