Quotes from authors born in 1748
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
Thomas Day
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Jeremy Bentham
Henry A. Wise 
Mira Nair 
Wil Wheaton 
Ali Akbar Khan 
Herman Boerhaave 
Frida Kahlo 
Stanislaw Lem 
Gale Sayers