8 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:56:19.832 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Caesar has asked me when has Rome ever been greater or stronger? I say in answer to Caesar: Never has Rome been greater or stronger than now.
- And what is it that has kept our empire together? Our strength! Our might!
- Equality... Freedom... Peace. Who is it that uses these words but Greeks, and Jews, and slaves?
- Behind him and his people are the Vandals, untold millions of them, waiting for a moment of weakness, ready to destroy us.
- If we take these barbarians in amongst us, our enemies will say is it because we are weak. Then they will pour in on us from everywhere.
- It will be the end of the Roman Empire. It will be the end of Rome.
- The end of Rome?
- How does an empire die? Does it collapse in one terrible moment? No. No! But there comes a time when its people no longer believe in it. Then, then does an empire begin to die.
- Fathers of Rome, I have lived under four great emperors. Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius.
- And during all those years our empire grew. Changed.
- The law of life is grow or die.
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