"James Mill's common place books"

“No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.”

“The question with respect to Government is a question about the adaptation of means to an end. Notwithstanding the portion of discourse which has been bestowed upon this subject, it is surprising to find, upon a close inspection, how few of its principles are settled. The reason is, that the ends and means have not been analyzed; and it is only a general and undistinguishing conception of them which exists in the minds of the greater number of men. So long as things remain in this situation, they give rise to interminable disputes ; more especially when the deliberation is subject, as in this case, to the strongest action of personal interest.”

“The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.”

“The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.”

“Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind, as edited by J. S. Mill, with commentaries by himself and others.”

“James Mill profile at Utilitarian.net”