"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."

"It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth, within the limits imposed by the rights and interests of others, that human …"

"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 'self-regarding' offences, if they are to be called offences, are not to be punished at all."

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race."