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

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate….

[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society..

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of….

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

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

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; ….

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people..

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 ….

Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The libe….

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of hum….

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

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

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….

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to a….

And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular….

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 g….

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England..

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 on….

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 ….

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