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John Stuart Mill has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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,…
• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
• What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…
• To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
• Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair…
• That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like…
• The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
• It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…

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