Citizens Quote by William Blackstone

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

— William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

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

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

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

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

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

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

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

— William Blackstone

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

— William Blackstone

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

— William Blackstone

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

— William Blackstone