James Mill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
-- James Mill

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Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
-- James Mill

#Character #Men #Action
It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.
-- James Mill
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.
-- James Mill

#Mean #Men #Law
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
-- James Mill

#Government #People #Acting
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
-- James Mill

#Government #Two #People
If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.
-- James Mill

#Mean #Men #Desire
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.
-- James Mill

#Men #Hands #Community

The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
I've never needed government to hold my hand.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

James Mill famous quotes

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