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.
William BlackstoneThe law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.
William BlackstoneBy marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.
William BlackstoneThe public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
William BlackstoneUntil the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.
William Blackstone