There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

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.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

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

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.