"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished." ― Jeremy Bentham Topic(s): Legal More From Jeremy Bentham "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." "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." More In Legal "You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it."― Liz Phair "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball."― James Patrick Murray "M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect."― Loretta Swit