Charter Quote by Pope Innocent III

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

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really…

— 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

“2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta,…

— Winston Churchill

The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no…

— Noam Chomsky

[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and…

— Thomas Hutchinson

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights…

— Patrick Henry

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

— John Hampden

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for…

— Robert Walpole

When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew…

— Edward Jenks

“For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is…

— Sarah Vowell