Excerpt from On Liberty Tim time, it is to be he d, is gone by, when any defence woulsebe necessary of WW as one of the securities against corrupt or tyran nical government. No ar tment, we may suppose, can now E; needed, against permitting a le Degreesslature or an executive, not identified1 in interest with the peo le, to prescribe opinions to them, and etermine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be al lowed to hear. This aspect of the question, besides, has been so often and so triumphantly enforced b preceding writers that it needs not specially insisted on in this place. Though the law of England, on the subject of the press, is as servile to this day as it was in the time of the Tudors, there is little danger of its being actually put in force against political discussion, except dur ing some temporary panic, when fear of insurrection drives ministers and judges from their propriety and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.