Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.