Available Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.

— Guy Standing

[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

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

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the…

— Thomas Goodwin

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

— Leo Tolstoy

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

— Anatoli Boukreev

“The precursor of copyright law served to force the identification of the author so that he could be punished if he proved to be…

— James Boyle

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power,…

— Thomas Sowell