There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
JOHN STUART MILLAll good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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 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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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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