I really enjoyed reading this book. There were loads of great quotes that really resonated with me, especially regarding what seems to be happening in our country recently.Individual liberty was the theme through this book and I was pleasantly surprised to find much that I could agree with. I recently had heard an interview with a woman that wrote a book about Mill and that he wasn't the warrior for liberty people think he is. I plan on reading that book someday, but it's a bit pricey! It's called "John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity "
by Linda C. Raeder.
I've been writing about the book as I read because there was so much to talk about. Here is the last quote I found, "a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished;"
What makes mankind great is adversity. The decisions we make, the lessons we learn from those choices is what makes us stronger and on a larger scale, a better nation. If we, as a nation, attempt to take away all the danger, make it so that only the safe choices can be made, we lessen ourselves. And who decides what is right and safe for who? What makes one group better able to make those decisions than another?
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