11 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:38:22.005 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Last night I got up here and asked you people to stand up and fight for your heritage, and you did, and it was beautiful.
- Six million telegrams were received at the White House.
- The Arab takeover of CCA has been stopped.
- The people spoke, the people won. It was a radiant eruption of democracy.
- But I think that was it, fellas. That sort of thing is not likely to happen again.
- Because at the bottom of all our terrified souls, we know that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick, dying, decaying, political concept writhing in its final pain.
- I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest and most powerful, the most advanced country in the world, light years ahead of any other country.
- And I don't mean the communists are gonna take over the world because the communists are deader than we are.
- What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it.
- It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished. Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals.
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