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

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Sir William Blackstonewas an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1738.

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

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

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)