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