Every Law Is An Infraction Of Liberty.

There Is No Pestilence In A State Like A Zeal For Religion, Independent Of Morality.

An Absolute And Unlimited Right Over Any Object Of Property Would Be The Right To Commit Nearly Every Crime.if Ihad Sucha Right Over Thestick Iamaboutto Cut, I Might Employ It As A Mace To Knock Down The Passengers, Or I Might Convert It Into A Sceptre As An Emblem Of Royalty, Or Into An Idol To Offend The National Religion.

What Else Is It That Should Trace The Insuperable Line? Is It The Faculty Of Reason Or Perhaps The Faculty Of Discourse? But A Full-grown Horse Or Dog Is Beyond Comparison A More Rational, As Well As More Conversable Animal, Than An Infant Of A Day Or A Week Or Even A Month Old. But Suppose They Were Otherwise, What Would It Avail? The Question Is Not, Can They Reason?, Nor Can They Talk? But, Can They Suffer? Why Should The Law Refuse Its Protection To Any Sensitive Being? The Time Will Come When Humanity Will Extend Its Mantle Over Everything Which Breathes.

Lawsuits Generally Originate With The Obstinate And The Ignorant, But They Do Not End With Them; And That Lawyer Was Right Who Left All His Money To The Support Of An Asylum For Fools And Lunatics, Saying That From Such He Got It, And To Such He Would Bequeath It.

Secrecy, Being An Instrument Of Conspiracy, Ought Never To Be The System Of A Regular Government.