6+ Sir Edward Coke Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Sir Edward Coke quotes and sayings.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned. — Sir Edward Coke

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. — Sir Edward Coke

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. — Sir Edward Coke

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? — Sir Edward Coke

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. — Sir Edward Coke

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. — Sir Edward Coke