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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 our island. (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 Quotes)
No outward doors of a man’s house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. (William Blackstone Quotes)
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 over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original (William Blackstone Quotes)
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution (William Blackstone Quotes)
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God (William Blackstone Quotes)
Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity (William Blackstone Quotes)
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer (William Blackstone Quotes)
Free men have arms; slaves do not (William Blackstone Quotes)
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer (William Blackstone Quotes)
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband (William Blackstone Quotes)
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people (William Blackstone Quotes)
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary (William Blackstone Quotes)
All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer (William Blackstone Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights (William Blackstone Quotes)
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny (William Blackstone Quotes)
No outward doors of a man’s house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private (William Blackstone Quotes)
Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it (William Blackstone Quotes)
The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness (William Blackstone Quotes)
By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage (William Blackstone Quotes)
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been it's greatest defense and ornament; it is it's ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island (William Blackstone Quotes)
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, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity (William Blackstone Quotes)
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws (William Blackstone Quotes)
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 more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity (William Blackstone Quotes)
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 be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts (William Blackstone Quotes)
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; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty (William Blackstone Quotes)