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.

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

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.

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

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

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!