Right and Good and True

Today, I also happened to catch the broadcast of what I consider on first impression a truly terrible movie: "First Knight." Richard Gere as Lancelot, Sean Connery as King Arthur and other actors delivering terrible lines for semi-cartoonish figures--especially the rebel knight Malagant. Ugh!

But amid all the nonsense, it has to be admitted, there were a few good lines (in the same way that at the beginning of the film "Gladiator," Russell Crowe reminds his battle-ready men, "Remember men: what you do in life, echoes in eternity!"). Excellent stuff.

In "First Kight," there is a scene between King Arthur (Connery) and Malagant (someone unimportant):

Arthur: You know the law we live by, and where is it written, 'Beyond
Camelot live lesser people, people too weak to protect themselves, let them die?'

Malagant: Other people live by other laws, Arthur. Or is the law of Camelot to rule the entire world?

Arthur: There are laws that enslave men and laws that set them free. Either what we hold to be right and good and true is Right and Good and True, for all mankind, under God, ... or we're just another robber tribe!"