1)It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. 2)That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the Engl… - William Blackstone

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

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

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

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

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About William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone (July 10, 1723 – February 14, 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England.

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Alternative Names: Sir William Blackstone
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The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

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