John Stuart Mill — "The subjection of women is an evil, and a hindrance to human improvement."

"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."

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

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

"A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."