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

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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