William Blackstone Quotes
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may…
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are…
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THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding…
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Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
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Free men have arms; slaves do not.
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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications,…
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The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.
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The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of…
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Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.
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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
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Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even…
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In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same…
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