It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent…

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.

Nothing therefore is to be more avoided, in a free constitution, than uniting the provinces of a judge and a minister of state.

What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.

In this distinct and separate existence of the judicial power, in a peculiar body of men, nominated indeed, but not removable at pleasure, by the crown, consists one main preservative of the public liberty; which cannot subsist long in any …

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

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