John Stuart Mill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
