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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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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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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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Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.
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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
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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.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.