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.

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.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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?

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

Right... is the child of law.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.