William Blackstone Quotes

"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."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Strength, Defense, England, Navy)

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Rights, Nothing, Protection, Public)

"The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Law, Liberty, Man, Mankind)

"The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Wife, Husband)

"No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God."
- William Blackstone
(Related: God, Law, Man)

"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Men, Society, Courage, Living)

"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer."
- William Blackstone

"Free men have arms; slaves do not."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Men)

"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."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Community, Law, Property, Will)