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"This was supposed to be a celebration, Dana. Why did you bring a shotgun to the party?"

As France collapsed and allied forces entered Toulouse, the Second Great War drew to an end. Anticipating the impending diplomatic and political division between South-East and North-West Europe, the Danubian Federation spared no time in flexing its might on its soon-to-be rivals. On the 5th of August 1951, a week after French surrender, Premier Dana Sokol, having only taken leadership 3 months ago, announced that the DSF had undertaken its first successful nuclear tests, clearly marking it as one of the leaders of post-war Europe. Oscar Bergh, Prime Minister of Scandinavia made this remark upon hearing the Danubian announcement.

"To die for Argentina is duty, to die for America is destiny"
 
"To die for Argentina is duty, to die for America is destiny"

Statement of Argentinean liberator José de San Martín to independence fighters during the Argentinean independence war. San Martín, of course, supported unity of all Spanish America which is to be achieved only after each Spanish American province was independent.

"I care not how many there are, you my comrades are Romans, the sons of Caesar!"
 
Statement of Argentinean liberator José de San Martín to independence fighters during the Argentinean independence war. San Martín, of course, supported unity of all Spanish America which is to be achieved only after each Spanish American province was independent.

"I care not how many there are, you my comrades are Romans, the sons of Caesar!"

Apocryphal quote often attributed to Italo Balbo during the Italian defense of Austria against Nazi Germany.

"What is Britain? A miserable pile of rocks jutting from the sea!"
 
Apocryphal quote often attributed to Italo Balbo during the Italian defense of Austria against Nazi Germany.

"What is Britain? A miserable pile of rocks jutting from the sea!"

Roman centurion Claudius Maximian when traveling to Britain for the first time, not having a favorable impression on the land.

"The country broke before its people did. The enemy forces literally had to firebomb the place, nuke the place, and then figuratively salt the earth afterwards."
 
Roman centurion Claudius Maximian when traveling to Britain for the first time, not having a favorable impression on the land.

"The country broke before its people did. The enemy forces literally had to firebomb the place, nuke the place, and then figuratively salt the earth afterwards."
A dark summation of America's efforts to neutralize Japan

"Italy shall never abandon Britain and France! Hitler will have to kill every italian, Ethiopian, Albanian, Greek, and still more before he breaks our spirit. And mark my words, he would have tried to regardless. People of Rome, we must fight. FOR OUR FAMILIES, FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR ROMA!" -Benito Mussolini, Itaian Dulce, 1936
 
A dark summation of America's efforts to neutralize Japan

"Italy shall never abandon Britain and France! Hitler will have to kill every italian, Ethiopian, Albanian, Greek, and still more before he breaks our spirit. And mark my words, he would have tried to regardless. People of Rome, we must fight. FOR OUR FAMILIES, FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR ROMA!" -Benito Mussolini, Itaian Dulce, 1936
Benito Mussolini announcing the Italian declaration of war against Germany.

"No-one expected the Baltics of all nations to remain communist."
 
"No-one expected the Baltics of all nations to remain communist."
Author Newton Gingrich writing about the Free State of Ba'alia in eastern Iran during the 1910's during the receding of the Holy Republic of the British State. With how they fought so so hard to shake off british customs dur, they still incorporated communist teachings into society.

"Deny a man a chance to prove he's respobsible as a kid, and he'll do any length to prove it."
 
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"Deny a man a chance to prove he's respobsible as a kid, and he'll do any length to prove it."
A comment by Shari Redstone when discussing his decision to diversify Viacom Inc into the crowded fast-food market. As the ultimate owners of the popular SpongeBob cartoon IP, Viacom created a series of nautically-themed "Krusty Krab" fast-food restaurants/children's entertainment centers. As a promotional stunt, the "Krusty Krab" chain offered for a limited time the 'Real SpongeBob'-certified cooking-&-swimming program where participants (who were selected from a draw among the chain's costumers under the age of 12) were taken on a tour of Nickelodeon studios and given cooking/swimming lessons. At the end the children would be given a certificate indicating they were "respobsible" swimmers/cooks. Though open to children only, a number of adult SpongeBob fans tried to get in by faking their age (hence Redstone's comment).

"The architects of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq believed that once Saddam had been overthrown Washington will be able to rebuild the country into a bright beacon of capitalism and democracy -- a "Germany of the Middle East", akin to the F.R.G. in the post-WW2 years. In a way it does resemble Germany now, just not in the way the Americans envisioned it. Instead of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is like the Holy Roman Empire: an anachronistic, disunited mess of a country which takes its national name from a long-gone (& much more prestigious) empire & where a few select elite "democratically" decide who is going to play the role of the feeble & powerless national-leader figurehead. We can only hope now that the "Napoleon of the Middle East" won't decide to knock on Bagdad's door and choose to "take the crown" for himself."
 
"The architects of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq believed that once Saddam had been overthrown Washington will be able to rebuild the country into a bright beacon of capitalism and democracy -- a "Germany of the Middle East", akin to the F.R.G. in the post-WW2 years. In a way it does resemble Germany now, just not in the way the Americans envisioned it. Instead of the Federal Republic of Germany, it is like the Holy Roman Empire: an anachronistic, disunited mess of a country which takes its national name from a long-gone (& much more prestigious) empire & where a few select elite "democratically" decide who is going to play the role of the feeble & powerless national-leader figurehead. We can only hope now that the "Napoleon of the Middle East" won't decide to knock on Bagdad's door and choose to "take the crown" for himself."

French Foreign Minister Jean Blanchard describing the miserable failure of the Central American Union to rebuild the country following the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the subsequent fears that the people would be receptive to "liberation" by the Persians.

"Franconia was the 'Greatest Land Power in Europe' because no one else was actually trying. Ireland and Castile were naval powers first and foremost, the Baltic League was an dysfunctional mess and even when they were functional they focused on trade rather than war, Karelia never had the population to be a serious contender although they made one hell of a run at it for a century or so, the Hungarians preferred to fuck their way to an Empire rather than fight their way to one, and Byzantium and the Rus were too busy being at each others throats to care about you half a continent away. No wonder you were successful for 800 years, you had no competition. The minute the Teutons stopped fighting each other and got their shit together they kicked your teeth in so hard you had to go crying to your mortal enemy in Rome and beg the Pope to save you from the big bad Hun."
 

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"Franconia was the 'Greatest Land Power in Europe' because no one else was actually trying. Ireland and Castile were naval powers first and foremost, the Baltic League was an dysfunctional mess and even when they were functional they focused on trade rather than war, Karelia never had the population to be a serious contender although they made one hell of a run at it for a century or so, the Hungarians preferred to fuck their way to an Empire rather than fight their way to one, and Byzantium and the Rus were too busy being at each others throats to care about you half a continent away. No wonder you were successful for 800 years, you had no competition. The minute the Teutons stopped fighting each other and got their shit together they kicked your teeth in so hard you had to go crying to your mortal enemy in Rome and beg the Pope to save you from the big bad Hun."
A line from 1998 historical drama All the King's Men. The line in question is from the infamous monologue between the great Sultan Orhan I and King John II of Franconia where the Sultan is demonstrating Ottoman supremacy over the region and comparing it to Franconian exploits in the last 800 years. After a verbal exchange with John II and the ambassador, Orhan declares war on Franconia in what would ultimately become the Great Mediterranean War of 1354.

"60 years ago, the firing ceased. 60 years ago, the continent rejoiced to the end of the most terrible carnage it had ever seen. Today, the continent is once plagued by unsound theories, the desire for conquest, and the idea that might makes right. The tragic surrender of the Carolinas to President Long's military machine commenced when President Cameron Morrison failed to meet the demands of the Southron Dictator. At Long's mansion in Springer Mountain, the Carolinian President defying Long said 'Carolina will repel any Southron invasion and any incursion.' He added 'Carolina is a Christian state, an American state, and a free state.' However, within a few short hours, the 21st Continental Congress and the World were shocked to hear that Southron tanks had crossed the border in a thunderous invasion of Carolina."
 
"60 years ago, the firing ceased. 60 years ago, the continent rejoiced to the end of the most terrible carnage it had ever seen. Today, the continent is once plagued by unsound theories, the desire for conquest, and the idea that might makes right. The tragic surrender of the Carolinas to President Long's military machine commenced when President Cameron Morrison failed to meet the demands of the Southron Dictator. At Long's mansion in Springer Mountain, the Carolinian President defying Long said 'Carolina will repel any Southron invasion and any incursion.' He added 'Carolina is a Christian state, an American state, and a free state.' However, within a few short hours, the 21st Continental Congress and the World were shocked to hear that Southron tanks had crossed the border in a thunderous invasion of Carolina."
A line from a news report on the end of the Southeastern War (1904-1907), where Carolina (ATL Carolinas, southern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, and eastern Florida), clashed with South Ronaldia (OTL Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and part of Florida Panhandle), part of the US Union, and then led by George Long . The war quickly went messy once the US kicked South Ronaldia out of its ranks for it, Britain consequently sponsored SR, and Cuba decided the war would be harmful to its territory (in OTL west Florida). Tensions across the southern US still remain high.

"My folks used to laugh at me and say I wouldn't amount to anything in life. Now I laugh at them and think how they didn't amount to anything."
 
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A line from a news report on the end of the Southeastern War (1904-1907), where Carolina (ATL Carolinas, southern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, and eastern Florida), clashed with South Ronaldia (OTL Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and part of Florida Panhandle), part of the US Union, and then led by George Long . The war quickly went messy once the US kicked South Ronaldia out of its ranks for it, Britain consequently sponsored SR, and Cuba decided the war would be harmful to its territory (in OTL west Florida). Tensions across the southern US still remain high.

"My folks used to laugh at me and say I wouldn't amount to anything in life. Now I laugh at them and think how they didn't amount to anything."
John D Rockefeller's empire came crashing down around him and his family. His daughter and son in law were abusive to their son, John Peters Rockefeller. John P Rockefeller went on to become president while his parents died destitute.

"Oh dear, i hope young James doesn't enjoy hunting."
 
"Oh dear, i hope young James doesn't enjoy hunting."
British Prime Minister John Major, upon being informed his son James is a vegetarian.

"The Romanian nation is fictitious and the Romanian language is fictitious - obviously, the true nation is Pridnestrovian, and the true language Moldavian - and with god on our side, we shall march from Tiraspol to Bucharest, and our glorious Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall regain its full sovereignty, from Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy to the Banat and from Dobruja to Bukovina!"
~Igor Smirnov, President of Transnistria, 2004
 
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British Prime Minister John Major, upon being informed his son James is a vegetarian.

"The Romanian nation is fictitious and the Romanian language is fictitious - obviously, the true nation is Pridnestrovian, and the true language Moldavian - and with god on our side, we shall march from Tiraspol to Bucharest, and our glorious Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall regain its full sovereignty, from Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy to the Banat and from Dobruja to Bukovina!"
~Igor Smirnov, President of Transnistria, 2004
President Smirnov was incredibly similar to adolf hitler in attitude and policy, and would slander other balkan nationalities frequently. He rose to power shortly after the collapse of the European integration movements that had occured due to Britain and France objecting to German reunification. The US swiftly put an end to Transnistria.

"Long live the kaiser. May the sun never set on his empire." Joseph Stalin, Soviet Premier.
 
"Long live the kaiser. May the sun never set on his empire." Joseph Stalin, Soviet Premier.

These were Stalin's bitter final words before the hangman Reinhard Heydrich opened the trapdoor. Stalin had been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity in the Petrograd Trials.

"We live in a society."
 
"We live in a society."
Opening line of of Senator Theodore Robert Bundy speech to congress following the resignation of Richard Nixon. Bundy, who'd built his career on a harline "Law and Order", advocated for harsh criminal charges to be brought against Nixon for his role in Watergate and is widely believed to have been the force behind pushing Gerald Ford to drop plans to pardon Nixon.

"Well, two can play at that game....three can place at this game....four can play at these games....and five can play at those games"
 
Opening line of of Senator Theodore Robert Bundy speech to congress following the resignation of Richard Nixon. Bundy, who'd built his career on a harline "Law and Order", advocated for harsh criminal charges to be brought against Nixon for his role in Watergate and is widely believed to have been the force behind pushing Gerald Ford to drop plans to pardon Nixon.

"Well, two can play at that game....three can place at this game....four can play at these games....and five can play at those games"
Napoleon III writing in a journal about growing frustration with Prussian Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck's attempts to alienate France. Napoleon, no slouch in foreign politics himself, managed to create a counter-web that made Prussia's moot. This annoyed the Russians who made a web to neutralize the french network, which angered britain who did the same, which just snowballed to a point where not even Bismarck was 100% sure what was happening.

"Prussia was always destined to be a naval power and competed with Spain for colonial possessions. Contrast france, who was left with the table scraps of what Prussia, Britain, and Spain got."
 
"Prussia was always destined to be a naval power and competed with Spain for colonial possessions. Contrast france, who was left with the table scraps of what Prussia, Britain, and Spain got."
A quote from John Travolta's book The Navy State: A History of Prussia and her Empire detailing the rise of Prussia as a maritime power in its quest for dominance over the UK and a colonial empire. After the Franco Prussian War not only was the Prussian Navy expanded but French colonies in Africa were largely seized by Prussia or freed under Prussian 'guidance'. There were many skirmishes in North Africa between colonial Prussian (and then German) troops and Spanish troops leading to a long standing rivalry still shared by the two powers. However Prussia's Navy, while triumphant in the Secret War of 1910 - 1911 was still destroyed in the First Great War. It would never regain its former glory and Germany would turn its attention to its long neglected Army.

"Dont go chasing waterfalls [...]"

"I killed 12 of you bastards back in the Old Country! Ill kill the rest of ya here in the new one!"

"That is need to know information sweetheart and frankly you do not, in fact, need to know."
 
A quote from John Travolta's book The Navy State: A History of Prussia and her Empire detailing the rise of Prussia as a maritime power in its quest for dominance over the UK and a colonial empire. After the Franco Prussian War not only was the Prussian Navy expanded but French colonies in Africa were largely seized by Prussia or freed under Prussian 'guidance'. There were many skirmishes in North Africa between colonial Prussian (and then German) troops and Spanish troops leading to a long standing rivalry still shared by the two powers. However Prussia's Navy, while triumphant in the Secret War of 1910 - 1911 was still destroyed in the First Great War. It would never regain its former glory and Germany would turn its attention to its long neglected Army.

"Dont go chasing waterfalls [...]"

"I killed 12 of you bastards back in the Old Country! Ill kill the rest of ya here in the new one!"

"That is need to know information sweetheart and frankly you do not, in fact, need to know."
A series of telegrams between the german empire and USA during the great war, written in code. Neither germany nor America confirmed or denied anything about them, but considering america was granted Alberta, BC, and the Yukon despite staying neutral, one can assume...


"Spain remaining catholic? Please, that's more ridiculous than normandy conquering kingdoms."
 
"Spain remaining catholic? Please, that's more ridiculous than normandy conquering kingdoms."

The central point of criticism to the Alternate History fiction, "The Laws of Succession" by Ernest Hemingway, detailing a world where Lutheranism never reached Spain. The main problem to the scenario, as many pointed out, was that the Germans have become the true Rome by the 16th century, expanding Lutheran influence through crusades in Europe. Owing to the popularity of the Holy Roman Empire, and the impoverished state that Spanish civilians were in, it was deemed impossible for Spain to maintain its Roman Catholic religion.

Normandy is used as the comparison because it was the first, and weakest, French kingdom to be subjugated by the Germans.

"If you're asking me why Americans have such poor taste in their fashion sense, I'd tell you that it has nothing to do with France or Italy embargoing the United States in the Cold War, but rather the works of mannequin / surrealist fashion designers like Jane, Cassandra, and Becky Doe, or trends that can literally rise and fall within a matter of weeks under the whim of Stefani Germanotta or Gwen Stefani."
 
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