John Stuart Mill — "The government of a country by a bureaucracy is an evil of the first magnitude."

"To be prevented from doing what one is inclined to do, is bondage."

"The government of dependencies by a free nation is always a most difficult problem."

"The only freedom which consists in doing what one desires, is a freedom which, if not qualified by other considerations, is inconsistent with the good of society."

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse."

"The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means us…"