Freedom? You fight for pay! Earn it!

Alexander The Great (Richard Burton)

8 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:25:10 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- No. I, as captain general of all Greece, and you as traitor to your people.

- Not for myself, but for my men, again I ask for quarter.

- Ask it of the Persians, who deserted you.

- How will you celebrate this victory, Alexander?

- At Chaeronea your father celebrated his by dancing over the dead bodies of Greeks who fought for freedom.

- Freedom? You fight for pay! Earn it!

- Then let it be to the death.

- Of all the Greeks who fought at Granicus, no one escaped alive.

- This, Alexander, is the legend of the Gordian knot.

- In many years past, when we were sorely pressed, it was said that a king would arrive in a village cart who would help us and become our ruler.

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