William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons 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.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

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

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

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

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

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.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.