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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

John Stuart Mill
Government, Community, Majority
John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.571

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

John Stuart Mill
Community, Force, Civilized
John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, Hackett Publishing

He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

John Stuart Mill
Rights, Support, Community
John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.385, OUP Oxford

All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

John Stuart Mill
Community, Brilliant, Injustice
John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.217, OUP Oxford

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