The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

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

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

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

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

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