More - William Blackstone Quotes

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

William Blackstone

 English Judge

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

William Blackstone

 English Judge Husband

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

 Citizens English Judge

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 for the general good of the whole community

William Blackstone

 

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 man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib

William Blackstone

 

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

William Blackstone

 Constitution English Judge

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

William Blackstone

 English Judge Escape

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

William Blackstone

 

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

 English Judge

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

William Blackstone