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Quotes by Edward Coke

Edward Coke

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls”

Edward Coke

“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

“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”

Edward Coke

“How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.”

Edward Coke

“Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished”

Edward Coke

“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.”

Edward Coke

“Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great”

Edward Coke

“I saw nothing but waters wap [lap] and waves wanne [come].”

Edward Coke

“Everyone thirsteth after gaine”

Edward Coke

“The gladsome light of Jurisprudence.”

Edward Coke

“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

“So use your own property as not to injure that of another.”

Edward Coke

“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.”

Edward Coke

“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.”

Edward Coke

“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

“It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.”

Edward Coke

“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”

Edward Coke

“Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.”

Edward Coke

“It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.”

Edward Coke

“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.”

Edward Coke