| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39511 |
| QUOTATION: | We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Stuart Mill (18061873), British philosopher, economist. On Liberty, ch. 2 (1859). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Mill Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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