Quotes from Sir Edward Coke

For a man's home is his castle.

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.

Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.

They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.