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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

13 seconds sound clip from the Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What a fine bunch of Americans!

- That's funny.

- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Why, that's it. Bill, don't tell me you know it.

- How does it go, Bill?

- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.

- We are now on a great battlefield of that war.

- We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live.

- It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

- But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground.

- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far beyond our poor power to add or detract.

[...]

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) Sound Clip

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) Poster

Quotes from the movie Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), featuring voice audio clips.

Actors: Charles Laughton (Ruggles), ZaSu Pitts (Mrs. Judson)

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