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Edward Coke
English
Businessman
About the author
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Art
#Man
#Trust
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Safety
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.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Old
#Maxim
#Houses
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Corporations
#Treason
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Cause
#Effect
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Fault
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Act
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Will
#Worth
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Home
#Violence
#Injury
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Success
#Crime
#Deeds
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Property
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Life
#Nothing
#Reason
#Law
#Perfection
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Reason
#Law
#Force
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Mother
#Cause
#Quiet
#Uncertainty
#Certainty
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
Edward Coke,
English
Businessman
#Will