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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.