Edward Coke Quotations

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

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

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

Law is the safest helmet.

Common law is common right.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

It is a fiction, a shade, a nonentity, but a reality for legal purposes. A corporation aggregate is only in abstracto—it is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.

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

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.

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