From The Con­tem­po­rary Review Vol 36 No 3, in “On Free­dom”, being dig­i­tized at Dis­trib­uted Proof­read­ers:

Free­thinkers, and I use that name as a title of hon­our for all who, like Mill, claim for every indi­vid­ual the fullest free­dom in thought, word, or deed, com­pat­i­ble with the free­dom of oth­ers, are apt to make one mis­take. Con­scious of their own hon­est inten­tions, they can­not bear to be mis­trusted or slighted. They expect soci­ety to sub­mit to their often very painful oper­a­tions as a patient sub­mits to the knife of the sur­geon. That is not in human nature. The enemy of abuses is always abused by his ene­mies. Soci­ety will never yield one inch with­out resis­tance, and few reform­ers live long enough to receive the thanks of those whom they have reformed.