"Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he……" — Edward Coke
"Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign"
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37 Quotes by Edward Coke
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- For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge…
- For a man's house is his castle.
- You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
- The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also
- Success in crime always invites to worse deeds
- So use your own property as not to injure that of another
- Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
- Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale
- That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he…
- Precaution is better than a cure.
- Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is…
- The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
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