Edward Coke Quotes

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.

Precaution is better than a cure.

A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

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

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

Precaution is better than cure.

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.