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Edward Coke

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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Trust
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Home
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Kings
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It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
- Edward Coke
Collection: Justice
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Jewels
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No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Men
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The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Mean
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There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Men
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The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Law
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Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Justice
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He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Cheated
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Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Justice
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Law
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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Jewels
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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign
- Edward Coke
Collection: Sovereign
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A corporation has no soul.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Soul
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The house of every one is to him as his castle.
- Edward Coke
Collection: House
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We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Thinking
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Men
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For a man's house is his castle.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Home
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Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Wise
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Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Men
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
- Edward Coke
Collection: Causes
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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Light
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We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
- Edward Coke
Collection: House
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Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Want
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
- Edward Coke
Collection: Use
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Law is the safest helmet.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Law
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Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Coke
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The Law ... is perfection of reason.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Law
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A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Thinking
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For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
- Edward Coke
Collection: Home
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Common law is common right.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Law
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That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Mean
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The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Party
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Precaution is better than a cure.
- Edward Coke
Collection: Cures

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