It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

Secrecy being an instrument of conspiracy ought never to be the system of a regular government.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Man is the measure of all things.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.