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Perfect freedom has no existence.

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2 seconds sound clip from the Ben-Hur (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 03:12:25.534 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Where there is greatness, great government or power, even great feeling or compassion, error also is great.

- We progress and mature by fault.

- Rome has said she is ready to join your life to hers in a great future.

- There are other voices.

- The voice, for instance, of Arrius waiting for you in Rome.

- He would tell you, if I may speak in his place, not to crucify yourself on a shadow such as old resentment, or impossible loyalties.

- Perfect freedom has no existence.

- The grown man knows the world he lives in. And for the present, the world is Rome. Young Arrius, I am sure, will choose it.

- I am Judah Ben-Hur.

- I cross this floor in spoken friendship as I would speak to Arrius.

- But when I go up those stairs, I become the hand of Caesar, ready to crush all those who challenge his authority.

- There are too many small men of envy and ambition who try to disrupt the government of Rome.

[...]

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Ben-Hur (1959) Sound Clip

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Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1959 film Ben-Hur.

Actors: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (Esther), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim)

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