John Stuart Mill Quotes
In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1861, p. 132.
Many believe that this was one of his greatest quotations. He made this statement when government itself was under attack and the nation was as polarized as any living could remember with President Trump alternately attacking the administration of other presidents and extolling his own while the majority of Americans were not favorable about him and his attacks on others and his repeated falsehoods.
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.
