Arthurian legend Quote by Michael Palin

Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government

— Anonymous

“ Dennis the Peasant: Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives…

— Graham Chapman

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

— Graham Chapman

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents;…

— John C. Calhoun

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions…

— Germaine Greer

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

— Maria Weston Chapman

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to…

— George Washington

The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that…

— John Ralston Saul

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the…

— Victoria Woodhull