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Quotes from Commentaries on the Laws of England — William Blackstone

1723–1780 England

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

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

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

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

Nothing therefore is to be more avoided, in a free constitution, than uniting the provinces of a judge and a minister of state.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

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

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Blackstone (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.