John Stuart Mill Quotes
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
Mill, John Stuart. "Coleridge." London and Westminster Review, 1840.
This is a very common error made by politicians, especially ideologues.
John Stuart Mill, usually cited as J. S. Mill, was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.
