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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 650
AUTHOR: John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
QUOTATION: The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 1, p. 14 (1975). Originally published in 1859.
SUBJECTS: Freedom