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.
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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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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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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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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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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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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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