John Stuart Mill
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
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"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."