“An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.” John Stuart Mill
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” John Stuart Mill
“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.” John Stuart Mill
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.” John Stuart Mill
“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.” John Stuart Mill
“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.” John Stuart Mill