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All persecution and oppression of weak consciences on the score of religious persuasions, are highly unjustifiable upon every principle of natural reason, civil liberty, or sound religion.

— William Blackstone

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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.

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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)

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