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• 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 others.
  His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant....
• 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 others .
  .. over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign....
• I am not aware that any community has the right to force another to be civilized.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill
• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
  -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859...
• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. -- John Stuart Mill
• War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse....
• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. -- John Stuart Mill
• The worth of the State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing i
  and a State which postpones the interest of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives in the details of business....