Sovereign Quote by Edward Coke Download Open image “Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign” — Edward Coke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sovereign
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the English nation, a danger to all Christendom, since this civil war obstructs the crusade. Therefore?we condemn the charter and forbid the King to keep it, or the barons and their supporters to… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“They sighed: "This leadeth to captivity-- Perchance destruction, ending dark and dire. Yet must we yield to human liberty Its own, e'en though a brand from freedom's fire Kindle for freedom's self the fatal pyre." So saying, they anointed one their king Who craved the crown, by patriot son and sire Put by in pure denial, lest it bring First… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
For when the law doth give any thing to one, it giveth impliedly whatsoever is necessary for the taking and enjoying of the same. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and,… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
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