An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is… — John Stuart Mill

An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.

On Liberty · 1859
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Provenance
Current citation
Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.
Original citation
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 3.