Quote of the Day

From political science Prof. William D. Adler (Northeastern Illinois University).

https://twitter.com/williamadler78/status/1224535168167415811

Thanks to Ed Driscoll at InstaPundit for the pointer.

Comments

[JohnSteed]

True power derives from a mandate from the masses -- not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

[James Pollock]

Romans go home

[RobinGoodfellow]

I mean, if I claimed to be an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they’d put me away!

[jjsaz]

I mean if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

[Colossal Douchebag]

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

[santamonica811]

A throw-away line in the movie, but it remains one of my favorite. (To be fair; I have about 75 "one of my favorite lines" in Holy Grail. An absolute classic.)

[AmosArch]

About as sane as handing out power based on genitalia or skin color or where you put said genitalia.

[TheSculptor]

Three cheers for reforming the priesthood!

[Eugene Volokh]

Way to kill the joke, dude.

[Fyathyrio]

I say unto thee, NI!

[James Pollock]

I want a shrubbery.

[jjsaz]

“Everyone thinks they ha e a sense of humor, but then they don’t all.”

https://youtu.be/fMknMZP_zX4

[Allutz]

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.