Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation