English - Businessman | February 1, 1552 - September 3, 1634
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Edward Coke
SafetyWhereMany
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
HomeViolenceHimEveryoneCastle
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
GuiltyInnocentWhoThreatensSpares
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.
WallsHouseOldOld WaysOurHouses
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
PropertyOwnYourUseAnother
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
LifePerfectionLawNothingReason
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
TreasonCannotCommitSoulsNor
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
GreatSmallFaultThoughBribe
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
LawLongReasonForceAgainstHow
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
MotherUncertaintyQuietCertainty
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
SuccessCrimeAlwaysDeedsWorse
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
EffectCauseAlsoCeases
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