The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
