The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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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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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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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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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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