Sir Edward Coke quotes

" One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. " # Innocence

" We should speak as the populace but think as the learned. " # Speakers and Speaking # America # Learning

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

" 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? " # Uncategorised # Home # Money

" 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. " # Uncategorised # Memory # Writers and Writing

" 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. " # Uncategorised # Knowledge # Life and Living