"A History of Britain" Revolutions (TV Episode 2001) - Simon Schama as Self - Presenter

Self - Presenter : It seems the new Leviathan has no fire insurance.
Self - Presenter : Outside Drogheda, two armies, two worlds, faced each other across the River Boyne. One belonged to the old world of faith and fervor. The other, Dutch and German professionals, were part of a modern war machine. No prizes for guessing who one; nobody.
Self - Presenter : The soldiers read Freeborn John and actually believed they should have a vote! Give them an inch and they take a mile. Pretty soon the men would start believing their officers were the tyrants Lilburne and the Levellers said they were. They had to be stopped. An army was not, repeat, not a commune.
Self - Presenter : Look, he wanted to say, just stop worrying about the dead king. You're the sovereign now. Come to think of it, you've always been the sovereign. Kings have been yours to hire or fire.
Self - Presenter : But when Cromwell and Milton told the people that it was time for them to govern themselves, they didn't of course mean to be taken literally. What, every jumped up weaver or ploughman with some six penny book learning announcing he'd just appointed himself the magistrate of Mucking-on-the-Wold? Granting himself the vote? Heaven forbid! That way lay chaos.

Simon Schama: Self - Presenter