Quotes from James Mill

Upon the right constitution of checks all goodness of government depends.

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

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.