John Stuart Mill Quotes
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, Member of Parliament, British Political Economist, The Subjugation of Women, 1869
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This was Reid’s description of the behavior of some Secret Service Agents bringing prostitutes into a secure area in in Colombia. The facility was established for the preparation of a Presidential visit. A number of Secret Service Agents were fired as a result.
Characterizing White House Chief of Staff and fellow Republican Donald T. Regan:
He was describing his first face to face encounter with Southern Negro slaves. He was totally shocked as the Negroes he had seen before were mostly free Blacks in the North-—many of whom were educated and cultured. He became an even more avowed abolitionist but like most anti-slavery whites at the time did not see the majority of Blacks as equal. See Abraham Lincoln: {587773}.
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.
