When You're Watching National Treasure

Ben Gates: 180 years of searching, and I'm three feet away. Of all the words written here about freedom, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security." [pause] Ben Gates: People don't talk that way anymore. Riley Poole: Beautiful, huh? I have no idea what you said. Ben Gates: It means if there's something something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. [pause] Ben Gates: I'm gonna steal it. Riley Poole: [laughs] What? Ben Gates: I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence. [walks away]