Mr. Freedom (1968)

John Abbey: Mr. Freedom, Police Officer

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Quotes 

• Dr. Freedom : You know that the world is divided in two parts. On one side is Right, and on the other side is Wrong. Wrong is Red. And Right is...

  Mr. Freedom : Red, white, and blue!

  Dr. Freedom : Yes. And in the middle, we have the Maybes and the Don't-Knows. First, we've two objectives. Make the Reds cry uncle...

  Mr. Freedom : Uncle Sam!

  Dr. Freedom : Yes. Then maybe the Maybes and the Don't-Knows will wake up and fight for Right. For Right is might, and might is...

  Mr. Freedom : Freedom!

• Dr. Freedom : Let me tell you about the French. They are 50 million mixed-up, sniveling crybabies who haven't stood on their two feet since Napoleon, and that wasn't yesterday. And Napoleon wasn't even French.

  Mr. Freedom : He was Corsican!

  Dr. Freedom : That's right, boy. So the French are the white man's burden. OUR burden. We've had to carry them through two world wars already, and we're damn well gonna have to carry them through the next.

• [Mr. Freedom's theme song] 

  Mr. Freedom : F-R-double-E-D, D-O-M spells Freedom! We fight for freedom, for one and for all! It's you-and-me-dom, and ten foot tall! Freedom, freedom, and oh-can-you-see-dom, we'll always beat 'em with star-spangled freedom!

• Mr. Freedom : Yeah I was poor, dirt poor, I was born poor. My father worked in the sewers, then came the depression-they closed down the sewers. No more school. All I had to wear was one suit, nothing but patches-but clean! We ate meat once a year. My palm beach was Hell's Kitchen. I've been working since I was seven years old-there's nothing I didn't do. I washed clothes, I shined shoes, I picked cotton. I was a boxer, a dishwasher, a striker and a strike breaker. Yeah! I worked on the railroad, sang the blues, played the piano. I was an engineer, an efficiency expert, a male nurse and an informer-I was everything. Yeah! You're right. It's rough, and it's tough where I come from. But if you've got what it takes, we'll take what you'e got and then some! What do you need? A Pencil? Paper? Screwdriver? A piano? You've got it. You want two pianos? Here you are, two pianos. Now goddamnit lets hear some music! If it's good, great, sky's the limit. If you can't play, beat it, who's next? What'daya say?