William Blackstone Quotes

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

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

Guilty, Innocent, Escape

Free men have arms; slaves do not.
William Blackstone

Men, Free, Slaves

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

Good, Nothing, Public

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

God, Law, Unless

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone

Men, Courage, Society

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

Wrong, English, King

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

Good, Great, Law

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

Law, Liberty, Though

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

Strength, Greatest, Natural

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Judge

Born: July 10, 1723

Died: February 14, 1780

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