On Representative Government (1861)
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Source: Autobiography (1873)
Source: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/162/mode/1up p. 162
Source: On Representative Government (1861), Ch. VII: Of True and False Democracy; Representation of All, and Representation of the Majority only (p. 247)
“Coleridge”. London and Westminster Review. (March 1840).
Source: Autobiography (1873)
https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/32/mode/1up pp. 32–33
Autobiography (1873)
Source: On Representative Government (1861), Ch. II: The Criterion of a Good Form of Government (p. 167)
Source: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/45/mode/1up pp. 45–46
Source: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 1: Childhood and Early Education (pp. 21-22)
Source: Autobiography (1873)
Source: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/222/mode/1up p. 222
"The Spirit of the Age, I", Examiner (9 January 1831), p. 20 Full text online http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/256/50650
Source: On Liberty (1859), Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being
Source: The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 1
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”
Also attributed to Thomas Jefferson, this is a modern paraphrase of a statement of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Misattributed
Source: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 3: Last Stage of Education and First of Self-Education (pp. 45-46)
Principles of Political Economy (1848), Book IV, Chapter VI, §3, p. 516
Source: On Representative Government (1861), Ch. XVI: Of Nationality, As Connected with Representative Government (p. 382)
Source: A System of Logic (1843), p. 11: Cited in Gaines (1976) "Foundations of fuzzy reasoning" in: International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 8(6), p. 623
Source: The Subjection of Women (1869), Ch. 4