The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

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

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.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

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

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

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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.

Wonder is an open heaven to wisdom.

I wiggle my eyebrows. 'Sorry, Evan, I can't make out with you while the dog is aligning himself with a magnetic field.

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratic regimes friendly to the United States.

Look, we have a very lousy system for retraining workers that get disrupted.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery!

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?