"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."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lessened the toil of any human being."

"The love of money is the root of all evil: but the love of liberty is the root of all good."

"The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality, but only when the 'itself' is composed of all the people, and the 'government' is the government of all by all."

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."