A man's house is his castle- et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.
--Edward Coke
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.'
--Edward Coke
Common law is common right.
--Edward Coke
Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.
--Edward Coke
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
--Edward Coke
Law is the safest helmet.
--Edward Coke
No restraint, be it ever so little, but is imprisonment.
--Edward Coke
None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
--Edward Coke
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
--Edward Coke
Precaution is better than a cure.
--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
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.
--Edward Coke
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
--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 should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
--Edward Coke
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