The Question Is Not Can Animals Speak

[i]n Principle And In Practice, In A Right Track And In A Wrong One, The Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is Consistency.

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.

Every Law Is An Infraction Of Liberty.

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.

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.