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

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.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

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

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

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

Free men have arms; slaves do not.