A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man?… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
