"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.“
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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