Wars mean tribute torn from our provinces, taxes, hunger, disease.
15 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:52:59.634 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- 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.
- Wars mean tribute torn from our provinces, taxes, hunger, disease.
- How costly that is! How wasteful!
- And yet the answer is simple. We must have no war.
- No war? When your friends continually attack us.
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