Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
– Edward Coke
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
– Edward Coke
Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
– Edward Coke
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
– Edward Coke
It is not easy to make a simile go on all-fours.
– 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
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
– 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
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
– Edward Coke
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
– 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
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
– Edward Coke
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
– Edward Coke
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
– 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
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
– Edward Coke
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.