Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

- James Mill

No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aw…

- James Mill

The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.

- James Mill

If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no so…

- James Mill

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of la…

- James Mill

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those…

- James Mill

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

- James Mill

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

- James Mill