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 …

- William Blackstone

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…

- William Blackstone

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

- William Blackstone

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…

- William Blackstone

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

- William Blackstone

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…

- William Blackstone

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

- William Blackstone

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…

- William Blackstone

[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.

- William Blackstone