To treat these wondering murderers as brothers, equals.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:49:13.541 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I thought you had betrayed my father. But now I know. You've found your own way of making the world he wanted.

- And yet if I try to make that world, Commodus will keep us apart.

- Make that world, Livius, and then let's see, what will keep us apart.

- Hail Livius, conqueror of the Germans. Hail Livius Germanicus!

- Honorable fathers! And Senators of Rome. Have you heard what is being proposed?

- Gaius Martellus Livius, has asked that we, the Roman Senate should give these barbarians, these savages Roman citizenship and settle them on Roman lands.

- To treat these wondering murderers as brothers, equals.

- And what of our other provinces? What of Gaul? So loyal to us.

- What of Syria, and Egypt which sends us our grain?

- If we make Romans of these barbarians, can we withhold Roman citizenship from them?

- No!

- Then what becomes of the precious prize Roman citizenship once was? It becomes a cheap, common thing. It will be given away like bread.

- I say no!

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