Magna Carta Quotes

• The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Poor, Has Beens, Oppressed

  "The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings".

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• He aquí una ley que está por encima del Rey y que ni siquiera él debe quebrantar. Esta reafirmación de una ley suprema y su expresión en una carta general es la gran obra de la Carta Magna; y sólo esto justifica el respeto en que los hombres la han tenido...

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Men, Expression

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

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• [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

  Tyrants, Balance, Fool

  Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Nunca debemos dejar de proclamar en tonos intrépidos los grandes principios de la libertad y los derechos del hombre que son la herencia conjunta del mundo de habla inglesa y que a través de la Carta Magna, la Declaración de Derechos, el Habeas Corpus, el juicio por jurado y el derecho consuetudinario inglés encuentran su expresión más famosa en la Declaración de Independencia de Estados Unidos.

  Winston Churchill

  Hombres, Derechos, Expresión

  The Sinews of Peace, pronunciado el 5 de marzo de 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

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• The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.

  Manu Joseph

  Animal, Unique, Law

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• The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Phases, Aspiration, Democratic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). "The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt", Gramercy

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• Esta [Carta Magna] ha sido forzada por el Rey. Constituye un insulto a la Santa Sede, un grave debilitamiento del poder real, una vergüenza para la nación inglesa, un peligro para toda la Cristiandad, ya que esta guerra civil obstruye la cruzada. Por lo tanto... condenamos la carta y prohibimos al Rey que la mantenga, o a los barones y sus partidarios que le obliguen a hacerlo, so pena de excomunión.

  Papa Inocencio III

  Reyes, Dolor, Guerra

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Law, Attention

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire”, p.46, Penguin UK

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• "Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Kings, Law, Tyrants

  Speech at Westminster Hall on July 04, 1935. "This Torch of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses". Book by Stanley Baldwin, p. 4, 1935.

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• Todo arte se basa en el inconformismo... Sin el inconformismo no habríamos tenido Declaración de Derechos ni Carta Magna, ni sistema de educación pública, ni nación en este continente, ni continente, ni ciencia en absoluto, ni filosofía, y considerablemente menos religiones.

  Ben Shahn

  Arte, Filosofía, Derechos

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• Nos encontramos hoy en el umbral de un gran acontecimiento tanto en la vida de las Naciones Unidas como en la vida de la humanidad. Esta declaración puede convertirse en la Carta Magna internacional para todos los hombres del mundo. Esperamos que su proclamación por la Asamblea General sea un acontecimiento comparable a la proclamación en 1789 [de la Declaración Francesa de los Derechos del Hombre], a la adopción de la Carta de Derechos por el pueblo de Estados Unidos y a la adopción de declaraciones comparables en diferentes momentos en otros países.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  País, Hombres, Derechos

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Letters, Ambassadors

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.

  Rocco Galati

  War, Years, Political

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• La libertad de prensa, el juicio por jurado, el Habeas Corpus, incluso la propia Carta Magna, aunque justamente considerada el paladín de la libertad, son todas consideraciones inferiores cuando se comparan con la distribución general de la propiedad real entre cada clase de personas.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, Real, Class

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• Magna carta. Master charga.

  Michael Keaton

  Money, Masters

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• I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Thinking, Rights

  Fuente: www.thenation.com

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• The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. 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

  Essence, Civilization, Culture

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.58, Penguin Books India

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