Quotes by Coke, Sir Edward




Sir Edward Coke.

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty."

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"We should speak as the populace but think as the learned."

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"Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls."

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"For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?"

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"It is therefore necessary that memorable things should be committed to writing, and not wholly betaken [i. e. , committed] to slippery memory which seldom yields a certain reckoning. "

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"There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England. "

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