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
JOHN STUART MILLAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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