Explain the AH Quote

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you...

but first they must catch you."

Otto von Bismarck to young Prince Karl von Hapsburg. After the joining of Prussia and Austria to create the Greater German Reich, stretching from Lorraine to Memel and Schleswig to Istria, the superstate in the heart of Europe was beset by enemies on all sides, however Bismarck kept a coalition from forming by playing them against each other. He supposedly said the quote to impress upon the prince the importance of continuing Bismarck's scheming ways.

"Well I don't know where it is now, it's a ship, it moves!"
 
"Well I don't know where it is now, it's a ship, it moves!"
-Captain of the Titanic Edward John Smith shorty after the ship was set a drift the disappearance of the Titanic is one of the oceans greatest mysteries.

“Well shit that crazy mustache man actually did it”
 
-Captain of the Titanic Edward John Smith shorty after the ship was set a drift the disappearance of the Titanic is one of the oceans greatest mysteries.

“Well shit that crazy mustache man actually did it”

Adolf Hitler, a Austrian-Hungarian general on Operation Bagration, a surprise attack launched against the People's Republic of Austria-Hungary and its allies in 1940 by the nationalist forces of Jospeh Stalin. The Red Pact, headed by the PRAH and the CoI, were caught completely by surprise by the Russian State's brutal assault, and by the end of 1940, Russian troops had punched to the gates of Hamburg and Vienna. However, the Russians, having expected to have won by the beginning of winter, failed to prepare adequtely for the harsh winter of 1940. This gave the Red Pact the time to prepare a counter-offensive, and in 1941, Operation Fredrick was launched, pushing the Russians back to the Elbe in Germany and Nitra in the battered PRAH. Thus began the Second War of Patriotism, a three front war that would lead to the collapse of the Russian State to American, Brazillian, and Red pressure and the beginning of the Quiet War.

"They killed our women and burned our homes! Blast, blood, fire, and ruin!"
 
[QUOTE="They killed our women and burned our homes! Blast, blood, fire, and ruin!"[/QUOTE]

Famous line of dialogue spoken by Sir Stannis Baratheon on the 10th Episode of the Second Season of A Song of Ice and Fire, a TV show based off the book series of the same name. Spoken just before Sir Stannis led a counterattack from the Red Keep to retake the capital from Lord Tywin Lannister and his army, who had laid siege to the city and had just begun to loot and pillage what little was left standing. Famous for being moot, as Sir Stannis and his forces were quickly annihilated after the beginning of the attack, and Lord Tywin held the city for the remainder of the series.

"Those who refuse to learn from themselves, we shall teach. And those who refuse to learn from us, we shall force to take their lesson."
 
"Those who refuse to learn from themselves, we shall teach. And those who refuse to learn from us, we shall force to take their lesson."

Words spoken by General Marcus Claudius Mazzolius, of the New Roman Imperial Army, after the surrender of the Persian forces and the following occupation of the Persian homeland in 2772 AUC (2019 of the Christian calendar). The occupation would see the total assimilation of the Persian culture into Roman society, and become one of the most important moments of the reign of Emperor Silvius Tiberius Arcorius.

"The only good Bavarian is a dead Bavarian!"
 
"The only good Bavarian is a dead Bavarian!"

Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor after Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, killed his second son Heinrich (OTL Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor) in battle, during a revolt precipitated by the attempt led by the Wittelsbach family to remove Henry the Lion from power in his twin duchies. Barbarossa would eventually win, trampling Henry the Lion beneath the hooves of his horse and executing nearly the entire Welf family, but, after Barbarossa compelled the Wittelsbachs to take a leading role in fighting the revolt as punishment for being the root cause of his son's death, and much of the family captured and executed after the siege of Wittelsbach Castle (in retaliation for the execution of Henry of Bavaria, the son of Henry the Lion) they were decimated as well. Barbarossa would eventually appoint loyal imperial governors to Saxony and Bavaria, often identified as the first sign of the growing centralisation of the Holy Roman Empire

"Today's weather is excellent for a revolution."
 
Frederick I Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor after Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony, killed his second son Heinrich (OTL Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor) in battle, during a revolt precipitated by the attempt led by the Wittelsbach family to remove Henry the Lion from power in his twin duchies. Barbarossa would eventually win, trampling Henry the Lion beneath the hooves of his horse and executing nearly the entire Welf family, but, after Barbarossa compelled the Wittelsbachs to take a leading role in fighting the revolt as punishment for being the root cause of his son's death, and much of the family captured and executed after the siege of Wittelsbach Castle (in retaliation for the execution of Henry of Bavaria, the son of Henry the Lion) they were decimated as well. Barbarossa would eventually appoint loyal imperial governors to Saxony and Bavaria, often identified as the first sign of the growing centralisation of the Holy Roman Empire

"Today's weather is excellent for a revolution."

Quote attribuited to Karl Marx, founder and first leader of the German Commune, after Vienna was captured by the german army in 1873. This caused the collapse of the Austri-Hungarian empire and its division between the Hungarian Republic, the Kingdom of Italy and the German Commune

"Tell Mussolini. I want him to know it was me."
 
"Tell Mussolini. I want him to know it was me."

Nationalist general Giovanni Messi talking to Duce Mussolini after the victory at the 3rd Battle of the Po against the venetians. The "him" is the King Vittorio Emanuele III, that had lost all the hope in the military capacity of the country after the lost of Milan to the veneto-lombardian forces.

(POD: Italy is crushed in ww1 and enters in civil war ;))

"I've been watching your defeats in Greece, but i have to ask, Why the REPUBLIC of Venice has a Prince in the army?! Damn!"
 
"I've been watching your defeats in Greece, but i have to ask, Why the REPUBLIC of Venice has a Prince in the army?! Damn!"
Alan Medici on why the Ventian army had acquired a prince tank during the Tarisati Schisms (1968-1974).

"I'm zorry, Mr. Dhompzom my deecher, bu my religion forbidz me from zpeekig or evem wriding emy ledder used to zpell dhe evilezd being Vbubo."

(Note: Vbubo means Satan here. Also, translated, this means "I'm sorry, Mr. Thompson my teacher, but my religion forbids me from speaking or even writing any letter used to spell the evilest being Satan" for those who can't understand.)
 
Alan Medici on why the Ventian army had acquired a prince tank during the Tarisati Schisms (1968-1974).

"I'm zorry, Mr. Dhompzom my deecher, bu my religion forbidz me from zpeekig or evem wriding emy ledder used to zpell dhe evilezd being Vbubo."

(Note: Vbubo means Satan here. Also, translated, this means "I'm sorry, Mr. Thompson my teacher, but my religion forbids me from speaking or even writing any letter used to spell the evilest being Satan" for those who can't understand.)
an excuse used by J. Chris, a boy in many popular religious children's books. This was from one denouncing secularization. The books were and are incredibly controversial, and banned in many countries, as despite their 'good' intentions, they are seen as indoctrination by what has become a mostly secular public.

"I am shocked and appalled that you claim to be American. How many millions of my nation's poor fled to your shores while I combated their abusers for you to segregate them by blood and by class? How is my absolute monarchy more liberal than your republic?"
 
an excuse used by J. Chris, a boy in many popular religious children's books. This was from one denouncing secularization. The books were and are incredibly controversial, and banned in many countries, as despite their 'good' intentions, they are seen as indoctrination by what has become a mostly secular public.

"I am shocked and appalled that you claim to be American. How many millions of my nation's poor fled to your shores while I combated their abusers for you to segregate them by blood and by class? How is my absolute monarchy more liberal than your republic?"

Arthur IV Fitzroy, King of Ireland, to the US Ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy in 1938.

“This day died a man of much wit and very little judgement.” - Lady Jane Grey
 
an excuse used by J. Chris, a boy in many popular religious children's books. This was from one denouncing secularization. The books were and are incredibly controversial, and banned in many countries, as despite their 'good' intentions, they are seen as indoctrination by what has become a mostly secular public.

"I am shocked and appalled that you claim to be American. How many millions of my nation's poor fled to your shores while I combated their abusers for you to segregate them by blood and by class? How is my absolute monarchy more liberal than your republic?"

The late King George Washington IV speaking of the Great Decline of 1885 and his efforts to end slavery in the Kingdom of the Americas. In a time where slavery was rapidly losing popularity, the Kingdom was a stubborn bastion of slavery and wouldn't give it up until 1879, the last country in the Americas to do so. During his reign, the last King of the Americas would witness 10 million Americans and vassal citizens flee to the Republic of Brazil and La Plata, but managed to rebuild the Kingdom's crumbling economy, expand the borders of the Kingdom to the Rocky Mountains, and pave the way to the creation of the United Kingdom of the Americas and Canada, a constitutional monarchy largely regarded as one of the most diverse and rich states in the world. God save the King!

Arthur IV Fitzroy, King of Ireland, to the US Ambassador, Joseph P. Kennedy in 1938.

“This day died a man of much wit and very little judgement.” - Lady Jane Grey

The 39 Year Queen speaking of the respected son of the famous Christopher Colombus, Marcus Colombus. After rediscovering the New World in the service of the English crown, Christopher Colombus would settle down in British Cuba as the first governor of the British Imperial Islands. Marcus Colombus would be born and raised outside the Imperial Islands, raised by Christopher's brother Bartholomew in London, and would become famous for leading the British conquest of the Aztecs and the Mayans, blitzing over them in a mere two years thanks to his large European force. When he died prematurely from a wound suffered in battle, Her Majesty Jane Grey the First would be reported to quietly say to her husband, "This day died a man of much wit and very little judgement." The colonial city of New Marcus, later the capital of the Dominion of America, was named after him.

"Thus does the tyrant fall!"

"Not yet, traitor."
 
"Thus does the tyrant fall!"

"Not yet, traitor."
a scene from the drama "Camelot, Northern Rome" wherein Arthur's great conquests of Britain have created a vast empire from Ireland to Norway and into Gaul. the above was from a Norwegian pretender plotting to liberate the northernmost kingdom, who had thought that he'd got one of Arthurs most trusted advisors, when in reality his supposed mole was working for the Great King all along.

"A great power in Iberia? Don't make me laugh- they've never been able to even unite most of Hispania, much less exert influence, before whatever king kicks it and the kingdoms and duchies run off again. And portugal is little more than an English vassal so don't say it."
 
"A great power in Iberia? Don't make me laugh- they've never been able to even unite most of Hispania, much less exert influence, before whatever king kicks it and the kingdoms and duchies run off again. And portugal is little more than an English vassal so don't say it."

King Arthur III blowing off the insistence of his vassal Duke Louis of Occitania of the threat of the rising power of the kingdom of Madrid. He would later regret this as their young King Charles the Lionhearted became a major rival for England leading to the War of Italian Succession.

"The Revolution shall not die today. God and all the saints forbid the destruction of the workers!"
 
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[QUOTE="A great power in Iberia? Don't make me laugh- they've never been able to even unite most of Hispania, much less exert influence, before whatever king kicks it and the kingdoms and duchies run off again. And portugal is little more than an English vassal so don't say it."

King Arthur III blowing off the insistence of his vassal Duke Louis of Occitania of the threat of the rising power of the kingdom of Madrid. He would later regret this as their young King Charles the Lionhearted became a major rival for England leading to the War of Italian Succession.

"The Revolution shall not die today. God and all the saints forbid the destruction of the workers!"[/QUOTE]
Helmut Zola in the Stuttgart Revolution in which the Christian Socialists staged an uprising against the poor workers conditions. Though their revolution was intended to bring about a full blown revolution in Germany, they failed at that purpose and Zola was forced to go into hiding. But, they managed to scare the German government into securing more rights for factory workers within the nation.

"Not for any nation. Not for any ideology. Not for justice. Not for honor. Not for power. Not for the future. Not for love. Not for peace. Only for revenge"
 
Helmut Zola in the Stuttgart Revolution in which the Christian Socialists staged an uprising against the poor workers conditions. Though their revolution was intended to bring about a full blown revolution in Germany, they failed at that purpose and Zola was forced to go into hiding. But, they managed to scare the German government into securing more rights for factory workers within the nation.

"Not for any nation. Not for any ideology. Not for justice. Not for honor. Not for power. Not for the future. Not for love. Not for peace. Only for revenge"

Serbian insurgents when meeting Ottoman troops that had pushed the Hungarian forces out of Belgrade. The Ottoman commander asked if they would fight for the Ottomans in the war, leading to the quote.

"Damn the nobles, damn the people, damn the nations, damn our families! It matters not if she is a Bonaparte and I a Hohenzollern, our love has been recognized by God! That should be good enough for you!"
 
"Damn the nobles, damn the people, damn the nations, damn our families! It matters not if she is a Bonaparte and I a Hohenzollern, our love has been recognized by God! That should be good enough for you!"


Crown Prince Gregor von Hohenzollern to his father, Kaiser Wilhelm IV of the Holy German Empire, regarding his love affair with Princess Maria Carolina Bonaparte, granddaughter of King Napoleon V of Italy. The couple had secretly married in a small church in Milan, with only their closest friends as witnesses. Despite heated protests from both their families, in the end they were accepted by the Bonapartes, but the Kaiser disinherited Gregor in favor of his younger son Helmut. Gregor went to live with his wife in a mansion near Naples, and would later become duke of said city.

"Give me a hundred of these Pretorians, and I could storm Versailles!"
 
"Give me a hundred of these Pretorians, and I could storm Versailles!"

Robespierre on the discovery of an old roman workshop where mechanical war machines were attempted. After revolutionary scientists figured out how to make them functional, he would lead the attack on the Heavily fortified Versailles palace, finally uniting France under the revolutionary banner.

"The plague from the red men from across the sea came, not enough men were left to bury the bodies."
 
"The plague from the red men from across the sea came, not enough men were left to bury the bodies."
Berber poet and statesman Dulga Beduba on the Vasquez' Fire, a virus transmitted by Mississippian sailors across Ghana and Heraklea [ATL western Europe], estimated to have cause 7.6 million deaths. It was a major factor in relations between the empires of the Old World and the New World fracturing.

"You haven't cleaned your room in months, and you call me a slob for a light varnish of dust on the counter? You really only have a problem with filthy messes when they're not your own."
 
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