"You were my teacher, Sentinel. But you didn't teach me how to be a hero. You taught me how to be a leader. And a leader must make the hard choices."
As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon, President Nixon addresses the world while the astronauts secretly investigate the crashed Cybertronian ship, the Ark :
"We will kill them all! Your leaders will now understand: Decepticons will never leave your planet alone... today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them!" Closing Monologue The film concludes with a final message from Optimus Prime:
"The heavens have become a part of man's world. For one priceless moment... all the people on this earth are truly one."
"We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then came the war between the Autobots, who fought for liberty, and the Decepticons, who fought for tyranny. Outnumbered and outgunned, our defeat was all but certain. But in the final days of the war, one Autobot ship escaped the battle. It was carrying a secret cargo that would have changed our planet's fate. A desperate mission. Our final hope. A hope that vanished."