“Strange women, laying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”
Just think. All that had to be done is someone let loose the arrow that would have killed Richard the 2nd and there might never have been the war of the roses.
That plague of 1348? The results were felt for years and years after.

"Strange women, lying at podiums, about distributing jabs, is no basis for a system of government."