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

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?