All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.