James Mill quotes
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“Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”
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“Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”
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“It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.24
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“Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.4
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“The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.”
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“No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.”
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“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.4
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“Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”
-- James MillSource : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.8
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“I've never needed government to hold my hand.”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.”
Source : Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).
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“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
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“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Source : "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.
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