| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64675 |
| QUOTATION: | Tom, remember your prayer. This time we have to say it to America. Arise my love. Arise, be strong, so you can stand up straight and say to anyone under God’s heaven, “Alright, whose way of life shall it be, yours or ours?” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Billy Wilder (b. 1906), Austrian–born U.S. film director, producer, writer, and Charles Brackett (1892–1969), U.S. screenwriter. Augusta (Claudette Colbert), Arise My Love, to Tom (Ray Milland) at the film’s end (1940).
This speech shows Augusta’s resolve to help convince America to intervene in World War II. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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