James Mill Quotes
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Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
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The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
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No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
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Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
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The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.
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