Battlestar Galactica

Sire Uri:
What I propose, instead, is that we now appeal for justice and mercy.

Commander Adama:
(clearly surprised) Justice? Justice from the Cylons? Is that what you actually said? Gentlemen, they'd told us that they will not stop until every human has been exterminated. Now why should they believe we are now willing to accept that which we have always found unacceptable – to live under Cylon rule?

Sire Uri:
Because we would destroy our arms to prove we are willing to live in peace.

Commander Adama:
Destroy our only means of defense?!

Sire Uri:
Or attack. May I remind my brothers that we did not have conflict with the Cylons until we intervened in their relations with other nations?

Commander Adama:
Yes. Yes, you are right. We did not come into conflict with the Cylons until we helped our neighbors, whom the Cylons wished to enslave. And until we helped the Hasaris get back their nation, taken by force by the Cylons.

Sire Uri:
Correct. But if we mind our own business, there's every reason to believe that the Cylons will leave us alone...permanently.

Commander Adama:
If you've all come to this Council to turn your backs on the principles of our fathers and the Lords of Kobol, from whom all colonies evolved, you do so with my utter contempt.