"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…"

"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it."

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

"The greatest happiness principle holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."