Quotes About Carta

#1. The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

Noah Webster

#2. Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

Winston Churchill

#3. The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.

John Conyers

#4. Can't I be purple?" Lady Alexandra asked.
Billie looked at her as if she'd asked to have the Magna Carta revised.

Julia Quinn

#5. American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

#6. They wanted to teach us the meaning of x in relation to pi, as opposed to helping us better understand ourselves and each other. They wanted us to know when the Magna Carta was signed-never mind what it was-as opposed to discussing birth control.

Jay Asher

#7. 2. We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

Winston S. Churchill

#8. [Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

Winston Churchill

#9. The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Thomas Huxley

#10. The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There was no good text available.

Noam Chomsky

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

Noam Chomsky

#12. Man, didn't anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn't matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn't be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you're sitting on a funky Magna Carta.

Paul Beatty

#13. The contemporary Matthew Paris wrote that, 'foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the foulness of King John'. A bard sang that 'no man may ever trust him, for his heart is soft and cowardly'. Yet this evil was catalyst for a greater good, Magna Carta.

Simon Jenkins

#14. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Samuel P. Huntington

#15. You, Christopher, with your centuries of Anglo-Saxon freedom behind you, with your Magna Carta engraved upon your heart, cannot understand that we poor barbarians need the stiffness of a uniform to keep us standing upright.

Christopher Isherwood

#16. All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

Ben Shahn

#17. The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.

Steve Berry

#18. I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

Winston Churchill

#20. My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

Erica Jong

#21. She had a way about her that spoke of homemade bread, and caring for people, and the kind of patience that women have when they help a ewe birth a lamb, or stay up in the night with a baby calf bawling for its momma.

James Aura

#22. Women are always changing. We change shape. We change our minds. We change our names when we marry. That morning, I woke up and saw in the mirror that my lips had changed and I wondered what was going to change next. -

Chloe Thurlow

#23. I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway.

Lisa Henry

#24. Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.

Brandon Sanderson

#25. So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

Anne Lamott

#26. I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

Bob Marley

#27. Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine ... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

Natalie Gulbis

#28. When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Tom Schulman

#29. I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#30. The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.

Ron Paul