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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.

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

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.

I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.