Quotes from Sir William Blackstone

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

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.

Man was formed for society.

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

The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

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

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

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

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