Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

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

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

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

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.