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.
JOHN STUART MILLPersons 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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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