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“One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.”
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“The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.”
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“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
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“Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions”
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“Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale”
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“That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.”
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“Where there are many counsellors there is safety.”
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“The house of every one is to him as his castle.”
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“It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice”
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“The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.”
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“For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same.”
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“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”
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“So use your own property as not to injure that of another”
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“Success in crime always invites to worse deeds”
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“For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].”
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“You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.”
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“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.”
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“The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.”
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“No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.”
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“He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.”
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“The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.”
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“A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.”
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“Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.”
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