I would do anything for you, Messala, except betray my own people.
6 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:33:08.845 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- And do you know where it can end? Rome! Yes, perhaps at the side of Caesar himself.
- I mean it. It can happen and this is the moment. I swear, this is the time.
- You speak as if he were God.
- He is God. The only God. He is power, real power on earth, not... not that.
- I would do anything for you, Messala, except betray my own people.
- In the name of all the gods, what do the lives of a few Jews mean to you?
- If I cannot persuade them, that does not mean I would help you murder them.
- Besides, you must understand this: I believe in the past of my people and in their future. Future?
- You may conquer the land. You may slaughter the people, but that is not the end. We will rise again.
- You live on dead dreams. You live on the myths of the past.
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