“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the countrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person that he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

John Stuart Mill [1806-1873]

John Stuart Mill was an english philosopher, political economist and politician. He was a pragnatic philosoper of Liberalism and has been described as “the most influential English speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century” by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

*source: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations