John Stuart Mill — "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, w…"

"The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality, but only when the 'itself' is composed of all the people, and the 'government' is the government of all by all."

"Absoluteness of power is the most seductive of all illusions."

"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 only freedom, therefore, which is of real value, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way."

"Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either."