[Self-defense is] justly called the primary law of nature, so it is not, neither can it be in fact, taken away by the laws of society.

By 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.

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

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

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

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.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.