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

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

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

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.

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

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

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.