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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Nonsense on stilts

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

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

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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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.

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

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Reputation is the road to power

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.

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

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

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.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.

The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness
that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Right ... is the child of law.

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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