"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

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

"The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

"Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace."

"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."

"You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky."

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues."