The language of natural rights require nothing but a hard front, a hard heart and an unblushing countenance. It is from beginning to end so much flat assertion: it neither has anything to do with reason nor will endure the mention of it. It lays down as a fundamental and inviolable principal whatever is in dispute: admit it, you are an honest fellow, a true patriot: question it, or so much as ask for the proof of it, you are whatever is most odious, sinning equally against truth and against conscience.
-Jeremy Bentham
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