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Up there, if you engage in what the federal government calls illegal activity, but what we call just a man trying to make a living for his family selling moonshine liquor, it behooves oneself to keep his wits.

13 seconds sound clip from the Inglourious Basterds movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:09:43 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Over there is a very capable two-way radio and sitting behind it is a more than capable radio operator named Hermann.

- Get me someone on the other end of that radio with the power of the pen to authorize my, let's call it, the terms of my conditional surrender.

- If that tastes better going down.

- You know, where I'm from...

- Yeah? Where is that exactly?

- Maynardville, Tennessee.

- I've done my share of bootlegging.

- Up there, if you engage in what the federal government calls illegal activity, but what we call just a man trying to make a living for his family selling moonshine liquor, it behooves oneself to keep his wits.

- Long story short, we hear a story too good to be true, it ain't.

- Sitting in your chair, I would probably say the same thing, and 999.999 times out of a million, you would be correct.

- But in the pages of history, every once in a while, fate reaches out and extends its hand.

- What shall the history books read?

- I implore you. We must destroy that tower.

- Sarge, that tower...

[...]

Inglourious Basterds Sound Clip

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Actors: Brad Pitt (Aldo Raine), Mélanie Laurent (Shosanna Dreyfus), Christoph Waltz (Colonel Hans Landa), Diane Kruger (Bridget Von Hammersmark), Daniel Brühl (Fredrick Zoller), Michael Fassbender (Lt. Archie Hicox)

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