Edward Coke Quotes

"Where there are many counsellors there is safety."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Safety)

"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."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Houses, Maxim, Old)

"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Corporations, Treason)

"The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Cause, Effect)

"Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Fault)

"Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Act)

"Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Will, Worth)

"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
(Related: Home, Injury, Violence)

"Success in crime always invites to worse deeds."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Success, Crime, Deeds)

"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Property)

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Life, Law, Nothing, Perfection, Reason)

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty."
- Edward Coke

"How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Force, Law, Reason)

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Mother, Cause, Certainty, Quiet, Uncertainty)

"Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign."
- Edward Coke
(Related: Will)