A CIA station chief speaking to Bob Denard's mercenary company during the Congo Crisis.
"Do not waste your tears. I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men."
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"Do not waste your tears. I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men."
The last words of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, in 1834. He lived just long enough to see his entire start to empire come apart in the War of Nations (1832-1836), and his death came days after he collapsed after learning his soldiers lost the Second Battle of Jena, a turning point in the war.
The lesson is this, sire - if we want to make a harsh peace, it must be harsh enough to truly break them. If we wish to make a soft peace, but must truly be soft. But simply humiliating them without breaking them, wounding them without killing them - that will only lead to a new war in 20 years.
Senior official of the Auswärtiges Amt Gustav Stresserman warned Arthur Zimmerman about the Treaty of Marseilles that signed the end of the First Weltkrieg. His warning proven prophetic as the 2nd Weltkrieg would broke out 20 years later between the Central Powers and the revanchist National Laborist regimes in France and Britain. Stresserman , by then has rise to the post of Reichskanzler, will be the one whose admisnistration drives the country through the direst storm in its history.
" No peace for us strays"
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Quote attributed to Colonel Nicholas Ivanovitch, leader of a regiment of White Russian soldiers who fought in every battle of the Russian Civil war, all the way to final stand of the Whites at Vladivastok in 1925, and then led his men in campaign after campaign against the communists and Japanese in china on behalf of the Chinese Republic, as mercenaries. After the Chinese Republic fell in 1944 when Japan and Britain carved it up into a dozen petty states, Ivanovitch then led his men into German service in German Indochina - war was all his regiment knew, and with no homeland left...
I see no other alternative. Roosevelt must be killed, and the Kaisar must be blamed for it. There is no other way to convince America to join the war.
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Excerpt from a testimony by General Eisenhower, testifying about a planned coup against President Franklin Roosevelt, who sought to keep America neutral during the second Weltkrieg, March 7, 1942.
In my experience, it is the fascist who is the true vermin of man. They cast entire peoples as vermin, and yet can engage in the same crimes they accuse their supposed enemies of committed. Pelley has called the Jews the thieves of man, and yet he sees little problem robbing Jews of their property. He calls Negros freeloaders, and yet he and he corrupt followers live off their so-called "penal labor" merely slavery under another title. But heed this Pelley: the Negro and Jew have survived against all odds. They shall survive, while it is your madness that will fall into the dustbin of history.
American Actor George Takei on the Silver Legion of America.
“The Invisible Hand of The CIA has created many assasinations of Communist leaders antithetical to the USA’s geopolitical interest”
“The Invisible Hand of The CIA has created many assasinations of Communist leaders antithetical to the USA’s geopolitical interest”
The headlines on the various newspapers when former President Richard Nixon would release information on a massive scandal involving manipulating the American public with quiet acceptance with a prominent branch of the Republican Party. This led to a period of troubles under Gerald Ford before faith in the government would be restored under the Mo Udall Administration, focusing on domestic affairs. However, the CIA would not be disbanded until post-Cold War with the election of President Russ Feingold.
"France must side with the Protestants and Great Britain, even if it means aligning with the German nation! Besides, they are preferable to the Austrians and their league of autocratic Catholics in Spain, Italy, Portugal, the traitorous Poles or Croatia-Slavonia!"
- 1930 Radio ad for the "Night Terrors on Bald Mountain" alternate history timeslot on Air Radio.
"Wubba Lubba Dub Dub"
Last words of Adolf Hitler, who uttered them after suffering a severe heart attack along side a stroke in 1938. The fact both of these occurred at the same time would lead many to suspect he had been poisoned or otherwise subjected to some outside force which induced one or both events.
"What do you mean the Midgard exploded?"
".... The Midgard exploded captain, there's really no other way to explain this."
"What caused it; sabotage, engine failure, solar flair, asteroid, what?"
"We're not sure yet captain, but an investigation is underway."
UDCV Midgard exploded just past Mars orbit midway through the 2009 game Mass Effect II. Later events in the game would show it to have been done by a cloaked frigate run by the Collectors, Protheans enslaved by the Reapers. The Commander requires Reaper and Collector nanotech in order to survive (and not having enough will kill the character, possibly requiring a new game), in a clever setup to the final boss in Mass Effect III.
"Please affirm that all deities, spirits and fae entities have given their blessings to this session of Congress."
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No quote? Fine, I'll make one.
"A city after its sports team loses is a dangerous place to be."
"A city after its sports team loses is a dangerous place to be."
No, there is one. Forgot to add it, but had it in 5 minutes later.
Eh, yours looks fun anyway.
Mike Greenberg of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning deadpanning the results of the New York Jets losing the Super Bowl by one bad referee call: 376 car accidents, a 25-foot wicker man burning on 5th street, riots that could be heard over jetliners, local television stations hacked and a city bus in the subway tunnels. Miraculously, there were no fatalities and only minor injuries.
"Please affirm that all deities, spirits and fae entities have given their blessings to this session of Congress."
A line from Saturday Night Live involving a skit parodying the President of the United States because of his open affection for "nerdy" hobbies, including Dungeon & Dragons. The President in turn would respond by repeating the line during an interview before referring to SNL as supporters of Momus, Greek God of Satire.
"Ever since the discovery of Atlantis by Western Europe and Al-Abubakri by Western Africa, the kingdoms there have grown strong and spread their faith wide. We must turn our attention to the otherside of the world"
A new world was found by Al-Abubakri in his voyages past the great ocean which he named Atlantis over the fabled land west. the Atlantean landmasses would be chiefly colonized by Mali, Morocco, Al-Andalus, Denmark-Norway, France and Albion.
"A Cavalry man almost killed me at Lutzen. But I am not the King of Sweden for nothing." - Gustavus II Adolf.
(Awesome! Also, the explorer would be named Abubakri or Abu Bakr II given how the Al- prefix is used to denote the "land of")
The King of Sweden explaining his survivor to a confidant after the Protestant victory over in Lutzen. His miraculous survival was seen as a sign that they were on the righteous path, increasing the morale of the Anti-Imperialist League tenfold. He would go on to help lead the Protestants to greater victories and influence the faith. So much so that it would see the Habsburg Monarchy be defeated and the dominance of Protestant faith over in France. He would also lead Sweden to fight alongside France against the Spanish Empire, which would see the Spain and her empire be torn asunder. The Republic of New Catalonia found their freedom under France while Spain would end up fracturing, leading to Andaluscia being reannexed by Morocco during a debt crisis and political marriage. France would get all of Spain's former Caribbean sea colonies and annex Florida to Louisiana in exchange for giving the colony of Canada to Swedish rule, along with securing a promiennt friendship for the nations.
Spain's colossal defeat would also send shockwaves in the unclaimed colonies, which would see revolutions overthrow the Spanish occupants, primarily in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, splitting into various nations, most notably the Kingdom of New Atzlan and the Viceroyalty of Peru becoming the Second Incan Empire. Both nations would become influenced by Protestant beliefs along with syncretism with indigenous faiths, leading to a reformation of more autonomy (except for the British, until they lost the American Revolution.)
"The Abyssinian Empire has planning war against the Ottomans since claiming Cairo and Jerusalem from them decades prior. It is now time to see the Lion of Judah war against the Turks."
Decree in the royal court of Marjani the 3rd, King of the Abyssinian Empire. The Abyssinian Empire, known alternatively as the Axumite Empire to outsiders had become a refuge for Middle-Eastern and North African Jews for several centuries. In 1799 the Ottoman Empire would begin a series of persecutions against Egypt and Judea's Jewish communities, who fled south bringing with them tales of Turkish depravity and violence. One of these refugees was the grandmother of the future king Marjani the 2nd, who would make it known Abyssinia's intention to eventually liberate Egypt and the holy land. War would break out in 1895, when Turkish soldiers killed a sheep which belonged to an Abyssinian farmer who, upon demanding compensation would end up being found dead, multiple bullets in his torso. The war would last for 3 years, and would see much of Syria and northern Egypt be littered with trenches and unexploded mines. The war would end in an Abyssinian victory that would see them directly annex Egypt and Judea, upon which the Abyssinian Empire would formally rename itself the Judean Empire. Along with the Syria and Mesopotamia would be broken off as Client states,. The Hedjaz region would be given to the Yemeni Sultanate, a long time ally of Abyssinia. The war would prove devastating for the Ottoman Empire, and it would later fall victim to a joint Greco-Russian invasion which would see Turkey loose its remaining European holdings and the west coast of Anatolia to Greece, and would result in the creation of an Armenian state with a member of the Romanovs on the thrown.
"They say war's can happen for the dumbest of reasons, but I ask you this, can any one of you look me in the eye and honestly say they would not go to hell and back fo the person you love?"
Prince Gennaro of Naples and Sicily, in a meeting with his generals about the rescue of his bethrothed, Princess Maria of Parma, who had been kidnapped by mercenaries working for the Venetian Doge.
"Son, did you really think that 'Death Korps' was just a pretty name? We never retreat! We never surrender! We fight, and we die!"
Line from The Greater Good, the third Ciaphas Cain movie and a part of Games Workshop's wildly successful Warhammer 40k film franchise. The films themselves are based primarily around Ciaphas Cain and the Gaunt's Ghosts novels, mostly because of the standout characters; although movies based on other novels have been made, they've never been quite so successful. This may be changing, however, with the highly successful Armageddon, a cyberpunk movie set in the titular hive world.
"The bare ground is cover enough for the Special Reconnaissance Regiment!"
Line from the Russian film Air Farce produced in 1998. This film was a satire of inept military actions. The Special Reconnaissance Regiment, far from being the effective spies of the Cold War era, ended up making a critical error in terms of cover usage, as seen in this quote.
"She led him to the garden? I wasn't expecting that ending."
Reputed last words of Gilgamesh VI shortly before his assassination in Babylon during the Last Era of Kings. His assassination is considered to be the beginning of the High Chaos of the Bronze Age and Babylon's final collapse as a regional power.
There is but one God and his name is Aten.