“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.