Jeremy Bentham — "Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorica…"

"Secrecy, being a weapon of injustice, is never to be endured."

"The more strictly the lines of demarcation between the several branches of the law are observed, the more perfect will be the system of legislation."

"Stare decisis, or the doctrine of precedent, is a device by which the errors of the past are made the rule of the future."

"Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue."

"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."