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"Martin Feldstein as Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard"
"John Campbell as Self - Chairman, Harvard Economics Department"
"The global economic crisis of 2008 cost tens of millions of people their savings, their jobs, and their homes. This is how it happened."
"Feel the Earth drop beneath you (Smithsonian Institution)"
"Watch the Earth drop beneath you (2016 40th-anniversary revision)"
"The land and sky in motion, nature at its best, its biggest, its most unforgettable. (LaserDisc back cover)"
"Peter Walker as Ezekiel"
"Ellen Bry as an unknown character"
"Here on July 4th, in the Year of Our Lord 1831, I am about to take a flight above the ground and earth and into the silent sky!"
"[Before ascending, Ezekiel reads a poem to his small crowd]"
"[After ascending] It's magnificence! I wish you can all see it from here!"
"[After showing the first form of aviation, hot-air-balloons] But America is still the domain of the horizontal, and speaks a language of vast distances. To conquer [it], we begin to think of space not as miles of forests and prairie to be crossed, but as time between places. Days. Hours. Minutes. We ally ourselves to speed."
"The traditional community testified to human limits, and its boundaries were in the world of the horizontal. But these swarming clusters of metal and glass seemed monuments to the idea of the vertical. They pushed the sky, as if to uproot themselves and take flight. We can truly see these cities only with that other eye we opened Wright Flyer|not so long ago."
"In our new way West, we will fly in a few hours, over landscapes the pioneers labored months and years to cross."
"This development of mobility and rapid transport has no parallel in all human history. And the telescoping of time has changed forever, the patterns of our imagination."
"Once, the shining sea of the West was limits and boundary. Now, lands-end, there's no longer the end of the line."
"We first flew in dreams, and the dream of flying has become real. We have extended our limits and seen our world from a new angle, in a way that once would've seemed godlike."
"The heavens are still beyond us."
"We have come a long way from a time when people gazed enviously upon the birds in-flight. Today, we look upon our planet from afar, and feel a new tenderness for the tiny and fragile Earth. For we know now, that even as we walk upon the ground, we are ever in-flight through the universe. And so, we begin to realize that human destiny has ever been, and always must be, to fly!"
"Go where dreams have wings.(Poster)"
"Bob Bailey as Mike"
"Chick Chandler as a Con artist"
"George Chandler as Sucker"
"Kurt Kreuger as Hans"
"Frank O'Connor as a Listener"
"In all racial groups, we find the same range of potentialities. We find idiots, and geniuses, we find criminals, and philanthropists. We must judge each man as an individual, and not by the color of his skin, or his eyes, or by the length of his nose."
"There are many differences between individuals. We each have different capabilities, different backgrounds, different ideas about what's right and what's wrong. Like the difference between me and these gentlemen who have just arrived. But that is not a difference in race, it is a difference in the way we think. Remember that. And remember, that there is no master race, that is a scientific truth. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying!"
"The Nazi Party will provide land for the farmer, work for the worker, and profits for the small businessman. Who is getting these things now? The Jew... The Jew who has stolen our nation and our birthright! Who makes all the money and takes all our jobs? The Jew!!! He must be shunned, he must be ostracized, he must be eliminated!"
"You who are true Aryan Germans will share the glorious destiny of our Fatherland!!! You are the pure blooded! The master race! It is your divine right to rule, and the Nazi Party stands ready to put you into power! It is for you to command All-Germany, and some day, the entire world!"
"Paul Lukas as the Hungarian Refugee"
"Richard Lane as the Soapbox Orator"
"Felix Bressart as the Anti Nazi Teacher"
"Robert Adler as a Listener"
"In this country we have no "other people", we are American people, all of us."
"Hans had swallowed the bait alright, and these were the men who baited the hook. Why? So that Hans could come to power? No, of course not, so they could come to power! They would merely use Hans to help them get there! He would do the "dirty work" for them."
"They had split the nation into a hundred pieces, and then one by one, they had destroyed the pieces. Over these broken pieces the Nazis rode into power, one party, one nation, one religion."
"These men had won their struggle for power, they now ruled all of Germany, but still they had trouble with their oldest and most persistent enemy: the truth. They found that truth does not die easily, and so they decided to "abolish" truth."
"Hans was an expert at brutality by this time; and Hitler had decided to use Hans and his brutality against other peoples: The Czechs, The Poles, The French, the Russians. But in the crucial test of war, Hitler's race theories didn't pay off. His "pure-blooded super men" were defeated by the "mongrel armies" he despised: by the British at El-Alamein; by the Russians at Stalingrad; and then on D-Day by American soldiers of every color and religion, who smashed across the Normandy beaches, and drove on through to the heart of Germany. For the misguided Germans who had swallowed the Nazi bait, the Nazi game did not pay off. The continent of Europe was strewn with millions of German bodies, "pure, Aryan bodies":"
"And Hans, who was going to rule the world, got only a little patch of Normandy that he could call his own."
"So let's not be suckers. We must not allow the freedom or dignity of any man to be threatened by any act or word. Let's be selfish about it. Let's forget about "we" and "they", let's think about us!"
"There is no "Aryan race" β and more important β there is no "master race.""
"John Kerry had intense supporters of his own. Hollywood filmmaker Michael Moore came out with a so-called documentary that was nothing more than campaign propaganda. In return, Kerry said that Hollywood entertainers conveyed "the heart and soul of our country.""
"It's amazing what can be done with telephones, faxes..."
"We wage a war to save civilization itself. We did not seek it. But, we will fight it. And we will prevail."
"[on the insurgency] They're not happy they're occupied. I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either"
"[on the Iraqi insurgency] There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they are talking about if that's the case. Let me finish. There are some who feel like that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is bring them on."
"[Between peaceful daily life in Iraq and the mass bombings] My fellow citizens... At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war."
"[on Hussein] He hates the fact, like Al Qaeda does, that we love freedom."
"[on Saddam Hussein] After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time."
"Sure a dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier."