Quote#Politics & Power
Law is the safest helmet
Quote byEdward Coke · 1549–1634
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Inscription in rings given by Coke to several of his friends on June 20, 1606, in anticipation of his judicial investiture; reported in Humphry William Woolrych, The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke (1826) p. 75. Derived from a latin maxim, Lex est tutissima cassis; sub clypeo legis nemo.
English (original)
Law is the safest helmet.
— Edward Coke
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