Even where freedom of speech and conscience are not curtailed by law,
there is another kind of censorship that is just as destructive to progress.
byJohn Stuart Mill1806-1873
John Stuart Mill
The Decencies of Debate
Abusive language, straw-man arguments and downright ‘fake news’ should have no place in civilised debate, but censoring them is far worse.
byJohn Stuart Mill1806-1873
Character and Conduct
Peace with Dignity
Amid the Don Pacifico Affair, William Gladstone told Lord Palmerston that
pride in his own country did not excuse bossing others about like a global schoolmaster.
byWilliam Ewart Gladstone1808-1898
Liberty and Prosperity
Measured Government
To Napoleon, the way that politicians in Paris had forced metric
measurements on the public was a lesson in bad government.
byNapoleon Bonaparte1769-1821
Liberty and Prosperity
A Nation of Shopkeepers
The great French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte protested that in
calling England ‘a nation of shopkeepers’ he had paid us a compliment.
byNapoleon Bonaparte1769-1821andBarry Edward O’Meara1786-1836
Character and Conduct
Through Russian Eyes
After a visit to England in 1847, Aleksey Khomyakov published his
impressions of our country and our people in a Moscow magazine.
by(William) John Birkbeck1859-1916andAleksei Stepanovitch Khomyakov1804-1860