"money takes flight when might conquers right"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sun Jan 6 19:41:58 UTC 2013


While watching "Ivanhoe", I heard Isaac of York say "money takes
flight when might conquers right" (or perhaps in the reverse order of
the phrases).  Not having my copy of the Yale Book of Quotations (or
any other) nearby, I ask what is known about its origin.  (I don't
find it in Scott's "Ivanhoe", and in Google Search only as a
quotation from the movie.)

Joel

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