"Twenty years after I am dead, I shall be a despot, sitting in my chair with Dapple in my hand, and wearing one of the coats I wear now."

"The sole object of government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest possible number of the community."

"The more strictly we are confined to the letter of the law, the more likely we are to miss its spirit."

"The only source of valid law is the will of the sovereign."

"The age of reason is the age of experiment."