He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

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

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

Right... is the child of law.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

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