John Stuart Mill — "The only way to ascertain the truth of an opinion is to permit its free expressi…"

"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."

"The subjection of women is a standing disgrace to Europe."

"The 'self-regarding' actions are those which primarily and directly affect only the agent himself."

"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…"

"The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual."