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