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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way
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Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.
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The interest of the people is that there should be full liberty of censure on every public officer, and on every public act or measure.
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Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.
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One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.
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A Sultan's favourite slave has slaves under her, over whom she tyrannizes; but the desirable thing would be that she should neither have slaves nor be a slave.