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

Edward Coke · Debate in the Commons [May 17, 1628]

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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.

Edward Coke · Semayne’s Case. 5 Report 91

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

Edward Coke · The source reads: “Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason… The law, which is perfection of reason.” · First Institute (1628)

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Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.

Winston Churchill · Blackpool. Balance, 399, 14 October 1950

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn’t give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

Winston Churchill · Recorded in Walter Graebner, My Dear Mr. Churchill, 1949

A bargain between politicians in difficulties ought not to be the basis of our criminal law.

Winston Churchill · Recorded in F. B. Czarnomski, The Wisdom of Winston Churchill, 15 July 1948

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

“How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.”

“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.”

“Nationalization of industry is the doom of trade unionism.”

“I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn’t give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.”

“A bargain between politicians in difficulties ought not to be the basis of our criminal law.”