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• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. -- John Stuart Mill
• 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
• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
  John Stuart Mill...
• 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....
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
  -- John Stuart Mill...
• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. -- 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....