“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” (Milton, Areopagitica). Even in our modern world, liberty is still a controversial topic because of differences of opinions that will vary based on culture, religion, gender, and etc. A perfect example of the theory of liberty being presented was from John Stuart Mill and his essay “On Liberty." The book “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill focuses on how John Mill believes strongly in freedom of speech and that individuals shouldn’t have any limitations when it comes to speech. All throughout history, we have fought for liberty and freedom and to be able to be equal amongst each other. The real problematic issue with freedom of speech is that if it has limitations, is it really consider “freedom of speech” then? John Mill suggests that the individuals should be allowed to voice their opinions as they desire to and this should not cause harm to other individuals. During an episode of TVO’s agenda, there was a feature episode of Mark Steyn and his articles relating to Islamophobia. This scenario is a perfect illustration of Mill’s theory of liberty because Mill would think that there was nothing with Mark Steyn stating his opinion about Muslims. In Mill’s opinion there should be no limitations within liberty and this is evidently shown in our society and politics. On the other hand, I believe that our world needs authority to put these limitations upon human kind so that we have structure and boundaries. Throughout John Mill’s essay, he uses different principles and theories to rationalize why freedom and liberty should exist without any limitations. Mill starts off his essay by explaining that freedom speech will benefit us to develop and progress within our own minds and civil liberty. He writes this essay to prove that the only way power can be rightfully exercised is not to put in place limitations when it comes to liberty and how there should be individual freedom. “The majority have not yet learnt to feel the power of the government their power, or its opinions their opinions” (Mill, 7). This states that many of us are blinded by how much power the government really has because overtime, the meaning of liberty along with the ruling system has changed. We are supposed to believe that we live in a world of liberty but we don’t notice that we are still fully ruled by the authority, which is our government. Mill defines that civil liberty is used as a boundary of society’s power over each individual and he expresses how we have political systems in place so that the government can maintain control of our liberty. Another point that Mill conveys is that allowing free speech without limitations will expand our views of circumstances and conditions. It will also allow space for growth and new ideas towards our world because all of us humans think differently from each other. “That principle is, that sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with liberty of action of any their number, is self protected. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm from others” (Mill, 8) Through this quote, we learn about the harm principle, which means to hold the actions of individuals to prevent harm to others. It examines the belief that no one should be able or be forced to act or behave a certain way. He explains that it’s not considered “harm” if the person is only harming himself or herself. Ultimately, the harm principle means that an individual should only be prohibited to prevent harm to other individuals and that society does not have the right to prevent actions that will only affect the perso