It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power… — John Stuart Mill
It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.
On Liberty · 1859
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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.
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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.