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

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke

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

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke

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

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

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Edward Coke

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
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.
Edward Coke


Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Edward Coke

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

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

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.
Edward Coke

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Edward Coke

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