The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public …

John Stuart Mill
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place. ✨ John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom, p.195, Taylor & Francis
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