Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILL
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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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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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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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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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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