Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
"Sir William Blackstone" King's Counsel/KC Serjeant-at-Law/SL was an English jurist, judge and Tory (British political party)/Tory politician of the eighteenth century. He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England. Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was educated at Charterhouse School before matriculating at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1738. After switching to and completing a Bachelor of Civil Law degree, he was made a Fellow of All Souls#Fellowships/Fellow of All Souls, Oxford on 2 November 1743, admitted to Middle Temple, and called to the Bar there in 1746. Following a slow start to his career as a barrister, Blackstone became heavily involved in university administration, becoming accountant, treasurer and bursar on 28 November 1746 and Senior Bursar in 1750. Blackstone is considered responsible for completing the Codrington Library and Warton Building, and simplifying the complex accounting system used by the college. On 3 July 1753 he formally gave up his practice as a barrister and instead embarked on a series of lectures on English law, the first of their kind. These were massively successful, earning him a total of £453 (£}} in terms), and led to the publication of An Analysis of the Laws of England in 1756, which repeatedly sold out and was used to preface his later works.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous judges! More William Blackstone on Wikipedia.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.
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
She has figured out what she needs to say and to whom she needs to say it. If at the end of her rainbow, she saw a Senate seat in New York and nothing other than that, you would see a radically different Hillary Clinton.
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public lib.
The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.
If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
The legislation went through quickly and with very little consideration. Public pension managers absolutely said behind the scenes that this legislation isn't going to accomplish much in Sudan, but it is going to harm the pension system; they just did not want to testify and make this point. It's only country boys like me who are willing to bring this up.
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