The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

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