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

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

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.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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