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.

Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

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

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

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

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

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.