9 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:37:24.540 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- And now you wanna buy a farm.
- Yes, sir. Got my eye on a fine piece of property. Forty acres, out near Anton Corners.
- What about collateral?
- Collateral? What's that?
- Security for your loan. What can you put up in the way of property? Have you any stocks and bonds, real estate, valuables of any kind?
- Well, no, Mr. Stephenson, you see, the point is, I haven't got any property. That's why I want the loan, so I can get the property.
- I see. No collateral. That makes things difficult.
- I'm a good farmer. Why, even during the war I kept my hand in. I used to spend my spare time down on those little islands working truck gardens, so my outfit could have fresh tomatoes and green corn and all that.
- And before the war, I was a sharecropper, like my father before me. And now, I feel I'd like to have a little piece of my own to work.
- You like to grow things, eh?
- Yes, sir. With the food shortage all over the world it's seems to me that farming's about the most important work there is. I mean... Well, don't you think so, Mr. Stephenson?
- Yes.
- You see, Mr. Stephenson I don't feel this is asking the bank for a handout. I feel it's my right. At least, that's what I've been told by other ex-servicemen that the government guarantees loans to us, if we wanna buy...
- Your loan would be administered through this bank which would put up half of the $6000 you require. Now, that involves risk for this bank, Mr. Novak.
- Excuse me.
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