WednesdayOct 22, 2025
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The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
This sacred truth - that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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