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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
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Economist
Egalitarianism
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Suffragist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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