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Freedom Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
- The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
- Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
- A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being…
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
- 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…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had…
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking…
- 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…
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