Quote by Samuel Johnson

The law of England is a law of liberty .

— Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“In this Treaty, King Charles the Simple in exchange for the Viking's loyalty and pledge of feudal allegiance, gave the city of Rouen and…

— Njord Kane

“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and…

— Walter Scott

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

— Edward Jenks

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair,…

— James Buchan

“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to…

— Charles Dickens

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

— Queen Victoria

If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers…

— Chauncey Depew

There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study…

— Noam Chomsky

“I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble nation of…

— Victor Hugo