Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.

John Stuart Mill

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

John Stuart Mill

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill