Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Political theory Politics

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Dennis

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Michael Palin

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Film

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Comedy (film) Comedy

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English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Python (Monty) Pictures/Michael White Productions/National Film Trustee Company, 1975.

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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

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James Madison
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English
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1787 1780s 18th century
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You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know—morons.

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1974 1970s 20th century
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