The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
John Stuart MillThere is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
John Stuart MillSo natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
John Stuart MillAnd it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.
John Stuart MillTruths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.
John Stuart Mill