Jeremy Bentham Government Quotations

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

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

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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.