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I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule
or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's
happiness - not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide
for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us
into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery
that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness,
hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life
will be violent and all will be lost....
!/images/photos/0000/0874/Great_Dictator_Pub_140-6_normal.jpg! The aeroplane and the radio have brought us
closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men
- cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is
reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children
- victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the
passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of
men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return
to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....
Soldiers! don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who
regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill
you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves
to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are
not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your
hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers!
Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one
man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the
power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power
to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight
for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give
youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen
to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that
promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away
with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!