John Stuart Mill Quotes
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. Vol. 2, John W. Parker, 1848, p. 544.
Lieber is best known because he was assigned by President Lincoln to study the then international laws of war and prepare a manual for the guidance of union troops in the Civil War. Lincoln then issued the document as a general order.
She was the first female Chief Justice in California.
He was considered Massachusetts’ greatest Colonial orator. In almost every war or other national crisis every country’s government generally tries to expand its powers to act without the review of courts, and to claim that because of the necessity many laws should not even apply.
John Stuart Mill, usually cited as J. S. Mill, was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.
