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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 a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled... "
Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California - Page 283
by California. Supreme Court - 1875
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 pages
...of action of any of their number, is__ self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...others. His -K ^"^JL'y*1" ' , . *"" " ~" — "-•~~~- ------ -~ ~ — ~ — •'«"?"•**"— owngood, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant....because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 24

Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1412 pages
...of action of any of their numbers, is self-protection. Tliat the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier; because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Readings in Civil Government

Percy Lewis Kaye - United States - 1910 - 560 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 24

Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1412 pages
...physical or moral, is not a sutlieient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear bocause it will be better for him to do so; because it will make him happier; because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be ght, Guarding realms and kings from shame, With those opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government

John Stuart Mill - Ethics - 1922 - 432 pages
...Wn good, either physical or"rn6raT,~S'"fr61 a^ sufficient wa1rant, tie cannot rignttully De'compeOea to do or forbear because it will be better for him...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1921 - 84 pages
...others. His own, d, eillicr physical or moral, is notLa Bufficient warrant. He cannot rightrally De compelled to do or forbear because it will be better...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do eo would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 138

American essays - 1926 - 878 pages
...action of any of their number, is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilized community,...because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating...
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Law, Liberty, and Morality

H. L. A. Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart - Political Science - 1963 - 100 pages
...harm to others."2 And to identify the many different things which he intended to exclude, he added, "His own good either physical or moral is not a sufficient...so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise or even right."3 This doctrine, Mill tells us, is to apply...
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