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When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.   Mill, John Stuart

Source: JOHN STUART MILL, Considerations on Representative Government, chapter 6, p. 108 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 May 8, 1873), an English philosopher and political economist, was an influential classical liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an advocate of utilitarianism, the ethical theory first proposed by his godfather Jeremy Bentham.

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