The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Utilitarianism, liberty
Utilitarianism, Chapter II (summarizing Bentham's principle)
1863
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"The ultimate sanction, therefore, of all morality, is a subjective feeling in our own minds."
Controversial"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."
Controversial"The great difficulty in the way of the progress of any reform is always not the 'difficulty of the thing itself,' but the difficulty of getting people to believe in the difficulty of the thing itself."
Controversial"The only way to ascertain the truth of an opinion is to permit its free expression."
Humorous"The only security against error is in the discussion of every subject, with the greatest freedom of speech."
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