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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....
• Language is the light of the mind. -- John Stuart Mill
• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. -- 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....
• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinio
  and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty...
• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. -- John Stuart Mill
• Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
  -- John Stuart Mill...