The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

-- John Stuart Mill

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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

-- John Stuart Mill

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

-- John Stuart Mill

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