Bill Pullman (screenplay Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerlch): "Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"
Bill Pullman (screenplay Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerlch): "Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!", Independence Day - 1996
released 8 November 1996,UK
The fact that the candidate you're being asked to vote for is at this moment rotting in an English jail shouldn't put you off! Sure wasn't I one myself 'til a week ago.
They can jail us. They can shoot us. They can even conscript us. They can use us as cannon fodder in the sod.
But -- But we have a weapon more powerful than any in the whole arsenal of their British Empire -- and that weapon is our refusal. Our refusal to bow to any order but our own, any institution but our own.
[pointing to the police]
Our friends in the Royal Irish Constabulary would like to shut me up. Oh yes, jail me again, shoot me, who knows? And I'd like you to send them a message. If they shut me up, who'll take my place?
[Crowd: I will!]
Who's going to take my place?
[Crowd: I will!]
I can't hear you. Who'll take my place?! Will they shut you up?!!
Bill Pullman (screenplay Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerlch): "Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!", Independence Day - 1996
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