One of the most inspirational speeches in recorded history was given by a silent comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin. If you like what you see please share the video any way you can and pass the message on.


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This is realy worth the three minuts it takes to watch if only to see what a great speaking voice the silent film star Charlie Chaplin had. What a great actor.

Worth Three Minutes of Anyone's Time


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Thanks for the live link

The Jewish Barber (Charlie Chaplin's character): Hope... 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 all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and 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 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 than 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 [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and 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 as cattle, 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. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint 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, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's 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 you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their 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, 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!

Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The soul of man has been given wings - and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope - into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up."


YouTube video of Charlie Chaplin delivering the 'Look up, Hannah' speech at the end of 'The Great Dictator'



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This still rocks me to the core and to think it was made in 1941, how brilliant.

funny, i pulled and posted this yesterday to.

Only if the world still worked this way.

If only our corperate media were not so jaded and corrupt.

I dont think a speech like this would get past the censors today.

I think I posted this saturday not sure glad you enjoyed it.

I am amazed that Charlie Chaplin was such a good speaker I am suprised I had never heard this untill rescently.

This speech is excerpted from "The Great Dictator," 1940. Chaplin's later film weren't well received by the public, but they were very meaningful and phophetic. For thos of you who liked this speech, as I do, please be aware that Chaplin was an agnoistic who espoused socialist sympathies.

You make that sound like its a bad thing.

Is it time for the world to be cleansed? I worship this guy btw, he was so outspoken, not to mention highly intelligent and convincing.

Sadly after this speech the United States got into WW2 and our country has been bullying people around ever since.

now more than ever

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed

Chaplin wasn't exactly poor,and lived quite comfortable in Vevey,near Lausanne on Lake Geneva!


http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/Charlie_Chaplins_star_on_rise_again.html?cid=12814

The post is about the present time..Austerity measures and the like....

I do not understand your comment.....

It's like saying....“I Like George Washington Except on Foreign Policy”

Ron Paul’s philosophy is that of the Founding Fathers. For Paul, the Constitution is the law of the land, not a mere rhetorical tool. For Paul, maintaining limited government means “eternal vigilance,” to borrow Thomas Jefferson’s phrase, against political leaders’ tendency to empower themselves at the expense of the people. One of the ways government has historically empowered itself is through constant war.

Like the Founding Fathers, Ron Paul believes in a strong national defense. Also like the Founders, Paul fears adopting an irrational offense. Our first President George Washington expressed this fear on September 17, 1796 when he delivered his farewell address. Washington said America should:

Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all… In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave…

The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives…

The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim…

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop…

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel…

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world… to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism…

How much of what Washington had to tell the American people sounds like Ron Paul today? Was Washington a pacifist? Hardly? An “isolationist?” Not at all.

A lot has changed since the 18th and 19th centuries and not everything the Founders’ envisioned for America is possible in the modern world. But their insight into the nature of man, the wickedness of political leaders and the centralizing tendency of government still holds true today. That we live in the modern world does not discount the genius of the U.S. Constitution. Neither does it discount the timeless wisdom of the men who wrote it.

There is no question that a nation like Iran is run by wicked men. The problem is, there also aren’t any questions about whether or not our typical response to such nations do us more harm than good. In the lead up to the Iraq War, not enough people asked such questions. Many American now regret this. Lessons not learned, many of our political leaders continue to stoke fear concerning any failure to act abroad. But we should be just as fearful that we might overreact. In fact, observing history, overreacting should be our greatest fear.

This was certainly a primary fear of the Founders, and Washington was right about the inherent dangers to liberty posed by permanent entanglements or alliances.

Agreeing with George Washington, Ron Paul is right to worry about those dangers too.