Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.