Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1150
AUTHOR:
John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
QUOTATION:
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN STUART MILL, inaugural address to the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, February 1, 1867.—Dissertations and Discussions, vol. 4, p. 335 (1868).
