Force is never more than a transient element of success; and after force comes the notion of right.

A government which should only be able to crush its enemies upon a field of battle would very soon be destroyed.

The true sanction of political laws is to be found in penal legislation, and if that sanction be wanting the law will sooner or later lose its cogency.

He who punishes infractions of the law is therefore the real master of society.

Now the institution of the jury raises the people itself, or at least a class of citizens, to the bench of judicial authority.