INDEPENDENCE DAY [1996]

The Day We'll Fight Back!

[Julius Levinson]: Hey don't you tell him to shut up! 

You'd all be dead now if it weren't for my David! 

None of you did anything to prevent this! 

[General Gray]: There was nothing we could do!

[Julius Levinson]: Oh don't give me that! You knew about this for a long time! 

What with that spaceship you found in New Mexico! 

What was it called... Roswell, New Mexico! 

And that other place... uh... Area 51, Area 51! 

You knew then! And you did nothing!

[President Thomas Whitmore]: Mr. Levinson, you're mistaken. 

There is no Area 51. There is no spaceship

[Albert Nimzicki]: Uh... Mr. President. That's not entirely accurate. 

[David Levinson]: What, which part?

[President Thomas Whitmore, at the secret government lab]: I don't understand, where does all this come from? 

How do you get funding for something like this?

[Julius Levinson]: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you? 

All you need is love, John Lennon, smart man, shot in the back very sad.

[Julius Levinson]

And I always thought THESE were gonna kill me.

[David Levinson, pointing at cigar]

[David Levinson, after seeing Julius discard a styrofoam cup]: Hey, you have any idea how long it takes for those cups to decompose?

[Julius Levinson]: If you don't move soon, I'm gonna start to decompose.

THAT'S RIGHT! Thats what you get! Look at you, ship all banged up! 

WHO'S THE MAN? HUH? WHO'S THE MAN? 

Wait until I get another plane! 

I am going to line all your friends RIGHT BESIDE YOU! 

[Captain Steven Hiller] 

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! 

[Captain Jimmy Wilder]

I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'. 

[Russel Casse] 

If we don't act now, 

we may not have much of an America left to defend.

[Albert Nimzicki]

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. 

And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. 

"Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. 

We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. 

We will be united in our common interests. 

Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... 

Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. 

We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. 

And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" 

We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

[President Thomas Whitmore]

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