Edward Coke Quotes

Precaution is better than a cure.

For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium [and each man’s home is his safest refuge].

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

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Law is the safest helmet.

When poor England stood alone, and had not the access of another kingdom, and yet had more and as potent enemies as now it hath, and yet the King of England prevailed.

I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.