"Justice is a name for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility, and are therefore of more paramount obligation, than any others."

"The true and proper object of a free government is the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"The only security against error is in the discussion of every subject, with the greatest freedom of speech."

"It is not the business of the law to make people good, but to prevent them from doing harm."

"The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means us…"