One single object...[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

If legislation doesn't protect habitat, how then can the government pretend that it will protect the species themselves?

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.