Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
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.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
