Charlie Chaplin — "You, the people, have the power to create machines. The power to create happines…"
You, the people, have the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure!
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English comic actor and silent-film auteur whose Tramp character defined early Hollywood and whose The Great Dictator (1940) satirized Hitler.
Closely associated with
Buster Keaton (silent-comedy peer of equal stature) and Harold Lloyd (third silent-comedy giant).
For an intellectual contrast, see
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (1924-1972) — Hoover pursued Chaplin for years on suspected communist sympathies, leading to the 1952 revocation of Chaplin's US re-entry permit and his Swiss exile — Hoover represented the McCarthy-era national-security state that was the institutional opposite of Chaplin's pro-immigrant Tramp humanism.