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There's a game out there, and the stakes are high.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we've got to fight for liberty, or whatever their word is. There's always a word.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
You're less than a dog, less than a rat, less than a bee or an ant, less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You're dead, mister, and you died for nothing.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
Just say "mister I'm sorry, I got no time to die, I'm too busy" and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don't pay any attention because it's your job to live not to die.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
Did anybody ever come back from the dead, any single one of the millions who got killed, did any one of them ever come back and say by god I’m glad I’m dead because death is always better than dishonor?
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)
Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots, you fierce ones, you spawners of hate, you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives. We are men of peace, we are men who work and we want no quarrel.
Johnny Got His Gun (1939)