Commentaries On The Laws of England - Quotations

Quotations

• "That the King can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution."
• "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
• "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right." (Commentaries, Book II Ch. II)