“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.”
— John Stuart Mill
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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.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
— John Stuart Mill
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