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.
William BlackstoneSo 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.
William BlackstoneThe law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
William BlackstoneThere is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William BlackstoneTHIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
William Blackstone