Edward Coke Quotes

Edward Coke (15)

Birth:	1st February, 1552
Death:	3rd September, 1634
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Judge, Jurist, Lawyer, Politician

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

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

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

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• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

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

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

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• Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

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• The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

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• Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

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

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• 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.

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• Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

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

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

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• The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

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