All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm
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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.
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
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