"money takes flight when might conquers right"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

A website with movie subtitle (or caption) information suggests that a
variant of the saying with the word "fright" was used in the dialog of
Ivanhoe. Of course, captions are sometimes inaccurate.

Ivanhoe (1952)
http://www.subzin.com/quotes/Ivanhoe/What+armor/id-44760

    Time - Phrase
    00:27:50 If his knights were to sweep the field, how would it go
with Richard's cause?
    00:27:55 Badly, sire. Money takes fright when might conquers right.
    00:28:00 My worldly goods are what I stand in. I have no armor and
no warhorse.

Joel S. Berson wrote
>
> 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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