William Blackstone - Private Quotes

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

William Blackstone

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

William Blackstone

Of crimes injurious to the persons of private subjects, the most principal and important is the offense of taking away that life, which is the immediate gift of the great creator; and which therefore no man can be entitled to deprive himself or another of, but in some manner either expressly commanded in, or evidently deducible from, those laws which the creator has given us; the divine laws, I mean, of either nature or revelation.

William Blackstone

So 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 Blackstone