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 law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
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.
No laws are binding on the human subject which assault the body or violate the conscience.
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
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 be subversive of all government.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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 points conform to his Maker's will.
Free men have arms; slaves do not.
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
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
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.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
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