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

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

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

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

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

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.

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

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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.