7 seconds sound clip from the Good Will Hunting movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:23:49 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- This is Professor Lambeau.
- And this is Professor Hayes.
- Tom, please. This is important. Please.
- Willy didn't show up for work today. Got this job through his P.O. You can call him.
- P.O.?
- Yeah. Parole officer.
- Thank you.
- Asshole.
- There is a lengthy legal precedent, Your Honour, going back to 1789, whereby a defendant can claim self-defense against an agent of the government if that act is deemed a defence against tyranny, a defence of liberty.
- Your Honour, Henry Ward Beecher, in Proverbs from the Plymouth Pulpit, 1887, said, and I quote...
- 1887? This is the 20th century.
- He's gonna make a mockery of the courtroom.
- I am afforded the right to speak in my own defence, sir, by the Constitution of the United States. This is the same document which guarantees my liberty.
- And liberty, in case you've forgotten, is a soul's right to breathe. And when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girded too tight. Without liberty, man is a syncope.
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