“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
