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Here it is. The Fiftieth Quote. I thought this one was an appropriate reminder of what we still have in America despite everything that is going wrong today.
"Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words."
-John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)
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One of the best quotes by one of Wayne's characters ever -- made all the better by the way he delivers the speech in the movie. The Alamo was probably Wayne's most political movie -- even more so than the Green Berets. And it is one of his most evocative, I think.
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