Quotes on history

“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.”

Topics: corner, dealers, history

“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

Topics: generally, history, means

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

Topics: consists, desires, doing

“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.”

Topics: about, fatal, history

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

Topics: enthusiasm, himself, history

“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.”

Topics: endeavoring, false, history

“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.”

Topics: apply, calls, good

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

Topics: crushes, despotism, history

“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.”

Topics: contrary, history, mankind

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

Topics: amends, anymore, compassionate

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