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Liberty Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
- So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from…
- 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…
- 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.
- And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
- To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty…
- ...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
- The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that…
- If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
- Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
- 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…
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
- The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
- A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with…
- 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…
- In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to…
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- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
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- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton