We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

— Timonides (James Mason)

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

You can hear this line at 01:52:33.971 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Greek! Greek!

- Born a Greek, I became a Roman by choice.

- Slave! Slave!

- Born a slave, I won my freedom.

- Fellow Romans.

- I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

- A hundred times we have taught those we have called barbarians what it means to make war with Rome.

- We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

- Fires go out, the dead are buried, the slaves die, slowly. But their hatred that we leave behind us never dies!

- Hatred means wars.

- Wars mean tribute torn from our provinces, taxes, hunger, disease.

- How costly that is! How wasteful!

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