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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.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

[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.

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

The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

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

Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

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

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

The Bible has always been regarded as part of the Common Law of England.

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

The law rarely hesitates in declaring its own meaning; but the Judges are frequently puzzled to find out the meaning of others.

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.