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

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

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

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.