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

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

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 else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

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

Right... is the child of law.