John Stuart Mill — "The only business of the government is to prevent harm to others."

"The world would be a gainer if it were more generally understood that the present moral education of mankind is of a very imperfect kind."

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

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

"Every man who is not a fool knows that a bad government is a great evil; but that there is no greater evil than a weak government."

"The only freedom which consists in doing what one likes, without regard to the tastes and feelings of other people, is not freedom at all."