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

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

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

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

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.