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Edward Coke [1552-1634] English
Rank: 103
Businessman, Former Solicitor General for England and Wales


Sir Edward Coke SL PC was an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.

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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Home
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Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it. Trust
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Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
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Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
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The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
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Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
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We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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