A Quote by Edward Coke

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

Edward Coke

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Castle Everyone His Home House Man Refuge Safest

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Edward Coke
English - Businessman
February 1, 1552 - September 3, 1634

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.

James Otis

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

James Otis

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke

A man's house is his castle.

James Otis

For a man's house is his castle.

Edward Coke

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

Thurgood Marshall

A man's home is his wife's castle.

Alexander Chase

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

Lucille Kallen

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle.

Ian Niall

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Tacitus

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.

James Madison

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

John Calvin

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.