Quotes by William Blackstone

• That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
• 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.
• The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
• 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 husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
• No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
• Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
• It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
• Free men have arms; slaves do not.
• 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.