- I'm not getting out.
- But you can't fight this...
- Yes, I can!

6 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:02:31 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Uh huh. Well, it was decent of you, paddling all this way just to give me the tip.

- Commissioner... even a herd of crocodiles couldn't drive me from this plantation of mine.

- But these aren't creatures you can fight... they're an elemental force, a gigantic catastrophe!

- Ten miles long, two miles wide... ants, nothing but ants! And each one as big as your thumb and each of them a fiend from hell.

- Unless you clear out at once, there'll he nothing left of you but a skeleton, picked as clean as your own plantation'll be.

- I'm not getting out.

- But you can't fight this...

- Yes, I can!

- I've got the best weapon there is, Commissioner... intelligence.

- But can't I make you understand...?

- I think it is you who do not understand.

- In the three years I've been here, I've met and defeated more than one catastrophe: flood, drought, a plague... events which caused many of my neighbors to flee for their lives.

- All my life, I have lived with one creed: The human brain needs only to become fully aware of its powers to conquer even the elements.

- Your obstinacy is endangering not only your own life, but the lives of your workers and their families.

[...]

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Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) Sound Clip

Leiningen Versus the Ants (Escape)Quotes with voice clips from Leiningen Versus the Ants - Escape Radio Show episode aired on January 14th, 1948, based on a story by Carl Stephenson.

Actors: William Conrad (Leiningen), Lou Merrill (The Commissioner)

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