Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

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.

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

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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.