The Great Dictator
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The aeroplane and radio
have brought us closer.

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These inventions cry out
for the goodness in man,

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cry out for universal brotherhood,
for the unity of us all.

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Even now
my voice is reaching millions,

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millions of despairing men,
women and children,

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victims of a system
that makes men torture

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and imprison innocent people.
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To those who can hear me I say,
do not despair.

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The misery upon us
is but the passing of greed,

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the bitterness of men who fear
the way of human progress.

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The hate of men will pass,
and dictators die,

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and the power they took
will return to the people.

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So long as men die
liberty will never perish.

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Soldiers,
don't give yourselves to brutes,

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men who despise you, enslave you,
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regiment your lives,
tell you what to think and feel,

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who drill you, treat you like cattle
and use you as cannon fodder.

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Don't give yourselves to these men,
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machine men with machine minds
and machine hearts.

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You are not machines,
you are not cattle, you are men!

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You have
the love of humanity in you.

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Don't hate. Only the unloved
and the unnatural hate.

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Soldiers, don't fight for slavery,
fight for liberty!

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St Luke says, "The Kingdom of God
is within man."

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Not in one man nor a group of men,
but in all men. In you!

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You have the power
to create machines,

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the power to create happiness.
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You have the power to make
this life free and beautiful,

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to make this life
a wonderful adventure.

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In the name of democracy,
let us use that power.

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Let us all unite,
let us fight for a new world,

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a world
that will give men a chance to work,

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that will give youth a future
and old age security.

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Promising these things,
brutes have risen.

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But they lie! They do not fulfil
that promise. They never will!

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Dictators free themselves
but they enslave the people.

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Now let us fight
to fulfil that promise!

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Let us fight to free the world,
to do away with national barriers,


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