The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

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

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Right... is the child of law.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.