1:51:01
From what l can see, no matter
what system of government we have...
1:51:04
there'll always be leaders
and always be followers.
1:51:07
It's like the road out in front
of my house. It's on a steep hill.
1:51:10
Every day,
I watch the cars climbing up.
1:51:12
Some go lickety-split up that hill
on high; some have to shift into second.
1:51:16
Some sputter and shake
and slip back to the bottom again.
1:51:19
Same cars, same gasoline,
yet some make it and some don't.
1:51:23
l say the fellows who can make the hill
should stop and help those who can't.
1:51:28
That's all I'm trying to do: help
fellows who can't make the hill on high.
1:51:32
What does Mr. Cedar
expect me to do with it?
1:51:34
Give it to him and a lot of other people
who don't need it?
1:51:36
If you don't mind, Your Honor, I'll
ride on those top waves for a minute.
1:51:40
All you fellows up there, all those
who applied for a farm, stand up.
1:51:47
See all those fellows?
They're the ones I'm trying to help.
1:51:49
They need it. Mr. Cedar and Mr. Semple
don't need anything. They've got plenty.
1:51:54
It's like I'm out in a big boat,
and I see one fellow in a rowboat...
1:51:56
who's tired of rowing and wants
a free ride and another who's drowning.
1:52:00
Who would you expect me to rescue?
Mr. Cedar, who wants a free ride?
1:52:05
Or those men out there
who are drowning?
1:52:07
Any ten-year-old child will give you
the answer to that. Thank you. Sit down.
1:52:14
Now, my plan was very simple.
1:52:16
l was gonna give each family 10 acres,
a horse, a cow and some seed...
1:52:19
and if they worked the farm
for three years, it's theirs.
1:52:22
Now, if that's crazy, maybe
l ought to be sent to an institution...
1:52:26
but I don't think it is,
and Mr. Cedar doesn't either.
1:52:29
Before the hearing, he offered to call
everything off if l made a settlement.
1:52:34
So you see, he wouldn't think
I was crazy if he got paid off.
1:52:37
It's a lie growing
in his warped imagination.
1:52:39
I never heard anything
so colossally stupid in my life.
1:52:42
It's an insult to our intelligence to
sit and listen to such childish ravings.
1:52:45
- You will permit Mr. Deeds to finish.
- But, Your Honor--
1:52:52
- Anything else, Mr. Deeds?
- No.
1:52:55
Yes. There is one more thing I'd like
to get off my chest before l finish.
1:52:59
- Proceed.
- Thank you, Your Honor.