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A good despotism is an altogether false ideal, which practically (except as a means to some temporary purpose) becomes the most senseless and dangerous of chimeras.
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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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Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.
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There is no act which more imperatively requires to be performed under a strong sense of individual responsibility than the nomination to employments.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Millverified·Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews·February 1, 1867