The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

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.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

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