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.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

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

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

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

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

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

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

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

When a mad man is executed, it is a miserable spectacle, both against law, and of extreme inhumanity and cruelty, and can be no example to others.

And therefore, every subject of this realme, for injury done to … by any other subject, be he ecclesiasticall, or temporall, free, or bond, man, or woman, old, or young, or be he outlawed, excommunicated, or any other without exception, may take his remedy by the course of the law, and have justice, and right for the injury done to him, freely without sale, fully without any deniall, and speedily without delay.

Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

It is therefore necessary that memorable things should he committed to writing, and not wholly betaken to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning.

For a man's house is his castle.

They [corporations] cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Not that I distrust the King, but that I cannot give trust except in a parliamentary way.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our house, that old ways are safest and surest ways.

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

Thou [Sir Walter Raleigh] art a monster; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart.... Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived.... There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou.

We stand at present on the confines between the liberty of the subject and the prerogatives of the king.