Quotes from John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.