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

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

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

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

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

And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and most extensive sense.