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| The great creative individual. . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. | | Uncategorized | |
| The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries. | | Uncategorized | |
| The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. | | Liberty | |
| The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. | | Uncategorized | |
| The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Freedom | |
| The only part of the conduct of anyone 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. | | Opinions; Silence | |
| The person 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind | | Uncategorized | |
| The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. | | Uncategorized | |
| The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England | | Authority; Country; Liberty; Struggle | |
| The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known | | Uncategorized | |
| The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion | | World | |
| The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it | | Mankind | |
| There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica | | Independence; Opinions; Politics | |
