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

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Right... is the child of law.