The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
Edward CokeRead
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
Interpretation
A person's home is a sanctuary that offers protection and security.
This quote emphasizes the idea that a home serves as a personal sanctuary for individuals, symbolizing safety and protection. It suggests that living spaces provide not just physical shelter but also emotional refuge, making them fundamentally important to one's well-being and sense of identity.
In practice
During a speech on the importance of community, you might say this quote to highlight the significance of having a safe space.
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.
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.
It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice
So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part are the more bold and peremptory.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
You can't have something without nothing.
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