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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

Conquest

Opinions

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

John Stuart Mill

Experience

Life

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

People

Conservative

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

John Stuart Mill

Men