6 seconds sound clip from the The Atomic Submarine movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:22:03 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- You trade school boys are all alike, aren't you? Anybody who doesn't think like a little gold-braided puppet is ipso facto a coward.
- You said it. I didn't.
- Well, wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, Commander.
- It just so happens I'm not a coward, physical or mental. And before I'd risk my father's life...
- We're all risking our lives.
- That may be, but Dad stays where he is, and I'm staying here.
- Oh, you are a mixed-up oddball, aren't you?
- Well, perhaps.
- The idea of willingly going to school to spend my life at a Paleozoic pastime that should have disappeared with the thunder lizards, I'm referring to war. That strikes me as the worst cowardice of all, being spiritually yellow.
- You mean nothing's worth fighting for?
- Peace. The dignity of man, destiny of human spirit. Now, you show me a man who says you win these fighting wars, and I'll show you an idiot.
- Oh, you talk like so many young men I've known. You talk well. Literately, intelligently, even brilliantly sometime, but you're all talk. What do you do about your ideas, your ideals?
- You mentioned my uniform. These are my work clothes. They represent what I'm willing to do, how hard I'm willing to work for what I believe in.
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