The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
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