Nature Has Placed Mankind Under

The Word "independence" Is United To The Accessory Ideas Of Dignity And Virtue. The Word "dependence" Is United To The Ideas Of Inferiority And Corruption.

It Is With Government As With Medicine, Its Only Business Is The Choice Of Evils. Every Law Is An Evil, For Every Law Is An Infraction Of Liberty.

The Addability Of The Happiness Of Different Subjects Is A Postulum Without Which All Political Reasonings Are At A Stand

All Poetry Is Misrepresentation.

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.