Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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.

Reputation is the road to power

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

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

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

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.