The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

John Stuart Mill

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

John Stuart Mill

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

John Stuart Mill

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

John Stuart Mill

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

John Stuart Mill