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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 20th, 1806

Died: May 8th, 1873

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