The science of government rightly belongs to one of the sections of the Academy of Sciences, whose permanent secretary is necessarily prime minister; and, since every citizen may address a memoir to the Academy, every citizen is a legislator.

But, as the opinion of no one is of any value until its truth has been proven, no one can substitute his will for reason,--nobody is king.
All questions of legislation and politics are matters of science, not of opinion.

The legislative power belongs only to the reason, methodically recognized and demonstrated.

To attribute to any power whatever the right of veto or of sanction, is the last degree of tyranny.

Justice and legality are two things as independent of our approval as is mathematical truth.