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.

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

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

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

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

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.