Jeremy Bentham — "The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

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

"The legislator is not to command, but to advise."

"All government is a trust."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the …"

"In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischiev…"