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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.”
John Stuart Mill quotes (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
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“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.”
John Stuart Mill quotes (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
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“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
Woodrow T. Wilson quotes (American 28th President of the United States 1856-1924)
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“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)
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“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”
John Stuart Mill quotes (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
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“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”
Woodrow T. Wilson quotes (American 28th President of the United States 1856-1924)
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“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
John Stuart Mill quotes (English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873)
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“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes (American clergyman 1878-1969)
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