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

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

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...

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

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

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.

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

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

Man…must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being…And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all...

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

The king never dies.

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

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

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...

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

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

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