Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
997
AUTHOR:
Sir William Blackstone (172380)
QUOTATION:
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
ATTRIBUTION:
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 1, chapter 1, section 3, p. 139 (1783, reprinted 1978).