What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
John Stuart MillMen are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
John Stuart MillEloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
John Stuart Mill