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

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

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

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.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

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

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.