It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.
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Original Citation
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.
Current Citation
Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.