Lyrics
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor.
That's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible.
Jew - Gentile - Black Man, White.
We all want to help one another, human beings are
like that.
We want to live by each other's happiness.
Not by each other's misery.
We don't want to hate and despise one another.
And this world has room for everyone, and the good
Earth is rich can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we
have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the
world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves
in.
Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in
want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical.
Our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much, and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
More that cleverness, we need kindness and
gentleness.
Without these qualities life will be violent, and
all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer
together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for
the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us
all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the
world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a
system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of
greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and
the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
...
Soldiers!
Don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise
you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to
think and what to feel!
Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle,
use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -
machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines!
You are not cattle!
You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
You don't hate!
Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the
unnatural!
Soldiers!
Don't fight for slavery!
Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is
written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group
of men, but in all men!
In you!
You, the people have the power - the power to create
machines.
The power to create happiness!
You, the people, have the power to make this life
free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that
power - let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that
will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a
security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to
power.
But they lie!
They do not fulfil that promise.
They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
people!
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with
national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where
science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers!
In the name of democracy, let us all unite
Artist: Charlie Chaplin
