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Quotation from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill
“the most important point of excellence which any form of government can possess is to promote the virtue and intelligence of the people themselves.”
Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text)
Mill's first criterion for judging any government.
Citation: "the most important point of excellence which any form of government can possess is to promote the virtue and intelligence of the people themselves." — John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text). (id mill-considerations-on-representative-government-q1)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
