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You mean to tell me you'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want?

6 seconds sound clip from the Meet John Doe (1941) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:37:06 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What do you suppose your precious John Does would say when they find out you never had any intention of doing it? That you were being paid to say so?

- You're lucky they don't run you out of the country.

- With the newspapers and radio stations that these gentlemen control, we can kill the John Doe movement deader than a doornail.

- We'll do it the moment you step out of line.

- Now, if you still want to go to that the convention and shoot your trap off, you go ahead and do it.

- You mean to tell me you'd try to kill the John Doe movement if you can't use it to get what you want?

- You bet your bottom dollar we would.

- Well, that's certainly is a new low. I guess I've seen everything now.

- You sit with your big cigars and think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.

- An idea that's brought thousands of them here from all over the country. By bus, train, jalopy and on foot...

- So they can pass on to each other a little of their experiences.

[...]

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Meet John Doe (1941) Sound Clip

Meet John Doe (1941)

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Actors: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, Edward Arnold, James Gleason

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