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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 price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
  -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859...
• I am not aware that any community has the right to force another to be civilized.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. -- John Stuart Mill
• He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. -- 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....
• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience refutes.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• Language is the light of the mind. -- John Stuart Mill