| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 904 |
| AUTHOR: | John Stuart Mill (1806–73) |
| QUOTATION: | If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 3, p. 54 (1975). Originally published in 1859. |
| SUBJECTS: | Individual |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | John Stuart Mill Collection | | |
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