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Stephen More Monologue from The Mob: A Play in Four Acts

From The Mob: A Play in Four Acts by John Galsworthy

male · defiant · 1:14 min

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I am trying to. (HOME: And what precisely is your view--you'll pardon my asking?) (Turning on him) Mr. Home a great country such as ours--is trustee for the highest sentiments of mankind. Do these few outrages justify us in stealing the freedom of this little people? (BANNING: Steal--their freedom! That's rather running before the hounds.) Ah, Banning! now we come to it. In your hearts you're none of you for that--neither by force nor fraud. And yet you all know that we've gone in there to stay, as we've gone into other lands--as all we big Powers go into other lands, when they're little and weak. The Prime Minister's words the other night were these: "If we are forced to spend this blood and money now, we must never again be forced." What does that mean but swallowing this country?

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30s · anger · power · freedom · betrayal · imperialism

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