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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation, to a little more of administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposeswill find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.   Mill, John Stuart

Source: JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 5, p. 106 . Originally published in 1859. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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