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Sir William Blackstone Quotes


A British jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.
Sir William Blackstone KC SL (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was a British jurist, judge and 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, 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.

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

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

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