Edward Coke

Common law is common right.

— Edward Coke

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

— Edward Coke

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

— Edward Coke

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more…

— Edward Coke

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

— Edward Coke

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

— Edward Coke

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

— Edward Coke

Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.

— Edward Coke

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

— Edward Coke

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

— Edward Coke