The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.