The text of from John Boswell’s Let Us All Unite!

from the final speech of Charlie Chaplin's film, "The Great Dictator"

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor.

That’s not my business.

I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.

I should like to help everyone if possible,

Jew, gentile, black man, white.

We all want to help one another,

human beings are like that

In this world there‘s room for everyone,

and the good earth is rich

and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful

but we have lost the way.  

Greed has poisoned men’s souls,

has barricaded the world with hate.

We think too much and feel too little

(we think too much and feel too little).

More than machinery we need humanity.

More than cleverness we need kindness.

Without these qualities life will be violent

And all will be lost (all will be lost).

Do not despair for hate of men will pass.

And dictators die (dictators die).

And the power they took from the people

will return to the people (will  return to the people).

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world to do away with greed

(to do away with greed).

Now let us fight fight to free the world to fulfill that promise.

Let us all unite!

Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes,

Men who despise you, enslave you

Tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel,

Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle.

Don’t give yourselves to unnatural men.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts

You are not machines, you are men!

You the people have the power (have the power)

To make this life free and beautiful.

Let us use that power to make this life a wonderful adventure

(wonderful adventure).

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world to do away with greed

(to do away with greed).

Now let us fight to free the world

To fulfill that promise.

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world to do away with greed,

A world where science and progress

Will lead to all men’s happiness.

Do not despair for hate of men will pass

And dictators die (dictators die)

And the power they took from the people

will return to the people (will return to the people).

Let us all unite!