70 Quotes by Edward Coke

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.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.