“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

John Stuart Mill
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“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 Mill
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“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”

John Stuart Mill
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“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
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“I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.”

John Stuart Mill
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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.”

John Stuart Mill
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“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

John Stuart Mill
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

John Stuart Mill
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“The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.”

John Stuart Mill
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“The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that…he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.”

Alexis de Tocqueville
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