John Stuart Mill — "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and le…"

"The government of a country by a mere numerical majority, is a thing which cannot be permanent."

"The strongest of all arguments against the present constitution of society is, that it does not permit the free development of every individual."

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

"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."

"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."