Quotes by Edward Coke

• You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
• Where there are many counsellors there is 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.
• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
• The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
• Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
• Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
• Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
• The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
• Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
• So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
• Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
• How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
• Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
• Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.