لو أن البشرية ناقص واحد على رأي واحد فليس للبشرية الحق أن تخرس هذا الشخص مثل ما أن هذا الشخص ليس له الحق أن يخرس البشرية لو كانت لدية القوة لفعل ذلك - John Stuart Mill

After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.

Az emberek - akár mint uralkodók, akár mint polgárok - szeretik saját vélekedéseiket és elfogultságaikat viselkedési szabályként másokra erőltetni; s ezt a hajlamot az emberi természet legjobb és legrosszabb tulajdonságai is oly erősen táplálják, hogy aligha lehet majd valaha is mással, mint a hatalom hiányával kordában tartani...

On the average, a person who cares for other people, for his country, or for mankind, is a happier man than one who does not; but of what use is it to preach this doctrine to a man who cares for nothing but his own ease, or his own pocket? He cannot care for other people if he would. It is like preaching to the worm who crawls on the ground, how much better it would be for him if he were an eagle.