...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?
John Stuart MillEloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
John Stuart MillA person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
John Stuart MillIn all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart Mill