- Why not? Have they got fences?
- No, they haven't got fences! They've got laws!

6 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:21:10 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, they've got to show me. They don't have to show you! I just told you!

- Look. Who's going to pay for all those buildings down in Washington? And Interstate Commerce? And the Constitution?

- The Constitution was paid for long ago.

- And Interstate Commerce... What is Interstate Commerce anyway?

- Oh, look. There are 48 states, see? And if it weren't for Interstate Commerce, nothing could get from one state to another, see?

- Why not? Have they got fences?

- No, they haven't got fences! They've got laws!

- Oh, holy smoke, I never ran across anything like this before!

- Well, I might pay you about... 75 dollars, but that's all it's worth.

- You'll pay every cent of it, like everybody else. And if you think you're bigger than the law, you've got another thing coming!

- Holy smokes! What's that? What's that? Let me out of this place! Lemme out here! Lemme out here!

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