Top 30 William Blackstone Quotes
#2. 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
#3. Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.
William Blackstone
#5. Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone
#6. In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.
William Blackstone
#7. That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone
#8. No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
William Blackstone
#9. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.
William Blackstone
#10. No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
William Blackstone
#11. [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
#12. Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
William Blackstone
#13. The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
William Blackstone
#14. Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.
William Blackstone
#15. The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
William Blackstone
#16. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
William Blackstone
#17. The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
William Blackstone
#18. If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
William Blackstone
#20. The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of ... the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
William Blackstone
#21. The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.
William Blackstone
#23. The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.
William Blackstone
#24. Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.
William Blackstone
#26. 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
#27. 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
#29. Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
William Blackstone
#30. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William Blackstone
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
