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The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
Thomas Huxley
Bible
Has-Been
Magna
Been
Oppressed
Poor
I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'
Shannon Sharpe
You
Thank You
Magna
Student
Terrible
Thank
Graduate
Graduated
Without doubt, the Queen's personal acceptance of her role as a loyal E.U. servant was one of the great symbolic moments of our history. A bit like Magna Carta, but backwards.
Peter Hitchens
Great
History
Acceptance
Queen
Backwards
Doubt
Our
Bit
Magna
Like
Without
Role
Personal
Loyal
Moments
Servant
Her
Symbolic
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
Edward Coke
Will
Magna
He
Fellow
Sovereign
Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.
Guy Standing
Government
Time
History
Class
Rights
Celebrate
Every
Boo
Every Time
State
Our
Liberties
Minister
Ability
Magna
Emerging
Shame
Spokesman
Demands
New
Make
Against
Them
Us
Really
Means
Let Us
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.
Melvyn Bragg
Comedy
Become
Crisis
Constitutional
Magna
Poetry
Never
Front
Far
Pages
Tony
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.
Melvyn Bragg
Book
World
Free
Changed
Way
Latin
Magna
Clause
Could
Free World
Said
Still
Which
Them
Grown
Two
Numbers
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?'
Melvyn Bragg
Attitude
Dangerous
Stupid
Think
Seem
Magna
Rather
Take
Very
Us
Much
Granted
English
Many