Class Quote by Guy Standing

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

[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

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons…

— Anonymous

The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of…

— John Conyers

Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of…

— Linda Colley

I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be…

— Melvyn Bragg

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

— Noam Chomsky

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his…

— James F. Cooper

“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength…

— Julius Evola