John Stuart Mill — "The power of education to make men what they are, is almost boundless."

"It is not the business of the law to make people good, but to prevent them from doing harm."

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

"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."

"That the only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"The 'self-regarding' offences, if they are to be called offences, are not to be punished at all."