...choose what he should believe. Compare John Stuart MilL On Liberty (1859): If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong,...

...years ago — we approached this same microphone and quoted John Stuart Mill: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. And Mill also said: We can never be sure the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion,...

...freedom. Mere is Mill's first statement against the suppression of opinions: Il all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...that one person, than he, if he had the power, would lx' justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the...

...individual, has, if any, only an indirect interest' (ibid.: 16); 'If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (ibid.: 21); 'All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility' (ibid.: 22). Such resounding...

...individual, has, if any, only an indirect interest' (ibid.: 16); 'If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (ibid.: 21); 'All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility' (ibid.: 22). Such resounding...

...and the toleration of those differences of opinion. He writes, "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind".6 He further said, "If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging...

...committed to protecting even the most unpopular opinions from censorship. "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion," he famously declared, "mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if...

...demise and act in such a way as to truly make a difference." — Tom Ambrose "If mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...power, would be justified in silencing mankind."— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your...

...single dissident. In one of his most memorable aphorisms Mill declares that 'if all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...the power, would be justified in silencing mankind' (1947, 16). This great aphorism is less witty than judicious, for it has the majestic repose we associate...

...arena, Heffner believed. He liked Mill when he wrote, in On Liberty, that "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the...he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."77 During the McCarthy era, Heffner found Democracy in America pertinent. Tocqueville's warning...