Explain the AH Quote

"Eat my dust, peasant!" - Tom Boston

Staunchly anti-communist POTUS Tom Boston, a level of authoritarianism is not to be denied either, in 2014's State of the Union Speech after peasants demanded some reforms to curb the influence of Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow Chemical et al.
No reforms were passed and the USA was well on its way to an unfettered Randist Objectivist paradise - or hellhole. That entirely depends on your point of view...

"Make Love Great Again!"
 
"Make Love Great Again!"

Rally shout of the hippy movement. The slogan became famous after being uttered by Donald ''peacebum'' Trump, naked, in front of a group of riot-police line in 1974 during a protest against the Vietnam war

''We will turn swords into ploughshare'' -Louis-Joseph Papineau
 
''We will turn swords into ploughshare'' - Louis-Joseph Papineau

In his first speech as Minister-President of Canada in 1844, Papineau shouted about his intentions of agrarian reform, to avoid situations like the Quebec Famine after the Canadian Civil War (1837-43), giving to the soldiers pieces of land for production.

"Mr. President, should I kiss your mouth?"
 
In his first speech as Minister-President of Canada in 1844, Papineau shouted about his intentions of agrarian reform, to avoid situations like the Quebec Famine after the Canadian Civil War (1837-43), giving to the soldiers pieces of land for production.

"Mr. President, should I kiss your mouth?"

Monica Lewinsky to Bill Clinton, with Bill enthusiastically and elatedly answering "YES!!!!". The statement was leaked during his impeachment trial and led to more Senators and Congressmen voting for impeachment, making Clinton the first POTUS in history to be successfully impeached. WIth the "no-longer-president" bonus and the people being able to already get used to his character, Al Gore handily won the 2000 election. The terrorist attacks of 10/2 by radical fundamentalist Islamists in 2001 could not be prevented, but, despite the attacks being even more deadly than 9/11 in OTL (the Pentagon was hit at a more deadly angle, and one plane headed into the cntre of Chicago), Iraq was never invaded.
Instead, Pakistan was militarily occupied (to support the government) and soon enough, i.e. by 2006, Islamist terrorism had been curbed.

Bill and Hillary would soon get divorced, and after two terms of Al Gore, two relatively successful terms at that, and one Feingold term, ultra-populist filthy rich media mogul Rush Limbaugh would win the presidency back for the GOP in 2012, which was to fully destroy the GOP by 2016...

"Oh no! This wonderful tower! It will collapse!"
 

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"Oh no! This wonderful tower! It will collapse!"
Line from a Lithuanian political cartoon commenting on the 1945-1948 Bolshevik Wars, depicting Tsar Nicholas IV in his Ivory Tower, watching the masses of Russia metaphorically taking bricks out from the base of the ivory tower, piece-by-piece. Of course, this was a reference to the Siege of Moscow. A month after the political cartoon was published, Moscow was captured (liberated?) by the Bolsheviks and Tsar Nicholas IV executed.

"Giraffes are heartless creatures." - George S. Patton
 
Line from a Lithuanian political cartoon commenting on the 1945-1948 Bolshevik Wars, depicting Tsar Nicholas IV in his Ivory Tower, watching the masses of Russia metaphorically taking bricks out from the base of the ivory tower, piece-by-piece. Of course, this was a reference to the Siege of Moscow. A month after the political cartoon was published, Moscow was captured (liberated?) by the Bolsheviks and Tsar Nicholas IV executed.

"Giraffes are heartless creatures." - George S. Patton

A passing remark by Patton remembering his childhood encounter with a giraffe.

"Napoleon may be gone, but never Poland's spirit" — King Jozef I (Poniatowski) of Poland
 

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"Napoleon may be gone, but never Poland's spirit" — King Jozef I (Poniatowski) of Poland
After the death of Napoleon, the Russians were permanently granted the Rhineland by Britain. Prussia, Austria, and Bourbon France hated this. So, they launched another coalition war, this time against the fellow reactionary power of Russia. Jozef Poniatowski, who survived 1813, managed to create a new kingdom of Poland, miraculously allied with Prussia due to the circumstances of the past decade. While relations with Prussia later declined, Jozef I was able to re-establish the independence, national pride, and sovereignty of the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

"And thus, the new flag of the United States of America shall be a red field, with a yellow star in the foreground. Red representing the blood of the workers, the farmers, the blacksmiths of the Thirteen Colonies, who fought and died against British imperialist oppression. The yellow star representing hope for the future and freedom and justice and our golden Constitution." - George Washington (1732-1799), 1st President of the United States of America
 
After the death of Napoleon, the Russians were permanently granted the Rhineland by Britain. Prussia, Austria, and Bourbon France hated this. So, they launched another coalition war, this time against the fellow reactionary power of Russia. Jozef Poniatowski, who survived 1813, managed to create a new kingdom of Poland, miraculously allied with Prussia due to the circumstances of the past decade. While relations with Prussia later declined, Jozef I was able to re-establish the independence, national pride, and sovereignty of the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

"And thus, the new flag of the United States of America shall be a red field, with a yellow star in the foreground. Red representing the blood of the workers, the farmers, the blacksmiths of the Thirteen Colonies, who fought and died against British imperialist oppression. The yellow star representing hope for the future and freedom and justice and our golden Constitution." - George Washington (1732-1799), 1st President of the United States of America

After Francois-Noel "Gracchus" Babeuf had come to support the American Revolution, he stayed in America and was invited to the Congresses and Convents. And thus, he could spread his (protp-)Communist ideas out of which the USA - while becoming just as much, if not more, of a superpower than in our timeline, it became a proto-communist instead of a proto-libertarian state!

"Long Live the Republicae Operaiae Romanae!" - Spartacus
 
"Long Live the Republicae Operaiae Romanae!" - Spartacus
Thracian-born Spartacus after he successully overthrown the Roman Imperial Government and the establishment of the Roman Workers' Republic



"The Nguni Bantu Congress was established as a movement with a clear republican platform and we're indeed proud as such; Nevertheless, the consensus among the majority of our members is that we recognized and respected the power of the monarch as the head of state of our beloved Ngunistan. In short, the new national government under the Nguni Bantu Congress will honor the role of the King of Ngunistan and the Royal Family in every aspect of Nguni society, political and otherwise."

- Nelson Mandela
Prime Minister of Ngunistan
 

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"The Nguni Bantu Congress was established as a movement with a clear republican platform and we're indeed proud as such; Nevertheless, the consensus among the majority of our members is that we recognized and respected the power of the monarch as the head of state of our beloved Ngunistan. In short, the new national government under the Nguni Bantu Congress will honor the role of the King of Ngunistan and the Royal Family in every aspect of Nguni society, political and otherwise."
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Nelson Mandela
Prime Minister of Ngunistan​
Hopes for a united South Africa were dashed when the state fell into civil war in the 1980s, after the Soviet backed left wing paramilitaries and US backed right-wing paramilitaries took control of parts of the country. While apartheid ended, a series of damaging skirmishes, rebellions, and suppressions replaced it. The early 90s however were a time of consolidation, as various rebel factions seeing higher casualties and fewer gains, came to agree that it was time to stop fighting and start drawing boundaries. Therefore, each native people in South Africa formed their own country, self governing, etc., and one of these governments was Ngunistan led by Nelson Mandela. It was the only royalist state, with the others being communist or socialist.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Basil III the Frank-Slayer
 
Hopes for a united South Africa were dashed when the state fell into civil war in the 1980s, after the Soviet backed left wing paramilitaries and US backed right-wing paramilitaries took control of parts of the country. While apartheid ended, a series of damaging skirmishes, rebellions, and suppressions replaced it. The early 90s however were a time of consolidation, as various rebel factions seeing higher casualties and fewer gains, came to agree that it was time to stop fighting and start drawing boundaries. Therefore, each native people in South Africa formed their own country, self governing, etc., and one of these governments was Ngunistan led by Nelson Mandela. It was the only royalist state, with the others being communist or socialist.

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Basil III the Frank-Slayer

Basil III - last Emperor of the Eastern Imperium -Just after the battle of Adrianopolis. the next day Constantinopolis (today Frankenburg) to the Frankish Duke Hermann der Griechentöter.

"Its my destiny to rule the world, but definitely I don't want!"
 
"Its my destiny to rule the world, but definitely I don't want!"

Napoleon II upon inheriting his father's vast Continental Empire. He unlike his father did not desire to rule over tens of millions of subjects. Instead Napoleon II's interests revolved around hunting and reading. As a consequence, he established many of Europe's finest libraries but also killed millions of Prussians when he turned Prussia into the whole's largest hunting reserve.

"Who are you to shoot me?"
 
"Who are you to shoot me?"
After being captured by the White Legion during the final stages of the war, his imperial majesty Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire (C.A.E.) was in dismay when he heard that Zaire's tribunal sentenced him to death by firing squad on May 1, 2001. The Zaire-C.A.E. War was one of the most controversial global events of the new millennia -- a war between two extremely autocratic, brutal and long-lasting African dictators. It is said that U.S. president Ross Perot, when asked by the Russian president Anatoly Sobchakabout about his opinion on the war between Bokassa I and Mobutu Sese Seko, responded with Henry Kissinger's famous quote -- "It's a pity they can't both lose".

"No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords! No more weapons! No more systems! NO MORE! No more superpowers... [Because] you can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel but you can NEVER strike GOD!"
 
After being captured by the White Legion during the final stages of the war, his imperial majesty Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire (C.A.E.) was in dismay when he heard that Zaire's tribunal sentenced him to death by firing squad on May 1, 2001. The Zaire-C.A.E. War was one of the most controversial global events of the new millennia -- a war between two extremely autocratic, brutal and long-lasting African dictators. It is said that U.S. president Ross Perot, when asked by the Russian president Anatoly Sobchakabout about his opinion on the war between Bokassa I and Mobutu Sese Seko, responded with Henry Kissinger's famous quote -- "It's a pity they can't both lose".

"No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords! No more weapons! No more systems! NO MORE! No more superpowers... [Because] you can fire your arrows from the Tower of Babel but you can NEVER strike GOD!"

Eugene V. Debs, POTUS from 1912 to 1920, claimed that God himself appeared to him and said this sentence. This prevented the USA intervening in World War I, and made Debs from a traditional anti-religious communist to the first true Christian Communist. Afterwards, the Christian Social Party (CSP) was to be renamed and overtook the ineffective Democratic Party as the opposition to the GOP by the 1930s. For a long time after, the US governments tried to avoid war as well as they could, not going for hawkish interventionism except if they were - or felt - attacked themselves...

"The realm beyond was much better! Much less stress, and nothing to govern! Why did I have to come back?"
 
Eugene V. Debs, POTUS from 1912 to 1920, claimed that God himself appeared to him and said this sentence. This prevented the USA intervening in World War I, and made Debs from a traditional anti-religious communist to the first true Christian Communist. Afterwards, the Christian Social Party (CSP) was to be renamed and overtook the ineffective Democratic Party as the opposition to the GOP by the 1930s. For a long time after, the US governments tried to avoid war as well as they could, not going for hawkish interventionism except if they were - or felt - attacked themselves...

"The realm beyond was much better! Much less stress, and nothing to govern! Why did I have to come back?"

Words attributed to Abraham Lincoln after surviving his attempted murder by would be assassin and former struggling actor John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln would later die (or natural causes) two years later. Lincoln's reasonable reconstruction of the South saw the Nation begin the heal her wounds. However the Republican Party would split after his death. The radicals and centrists battled each other so much eventually allowing Democrat Sam Tilden to win the Presidency in 1876. This would have great repercussions in the South and the North, as African Americans began to move en masse to the North creating even more conflict between radical and centrist Republicans who blamed each other for the electoral defeat. This would lead to the end of the Republican Party. The Democratic Party would dominate American politics until in 1900 when a young Theodore Roosevelt would win the presidency for the National American Party of Progress, nick names the "Bull Moose Party". After 4 successive terms and a victorious war with Britain Roosevelt would die in office.

"They said Victory or death, yet we have suffered no defeat, nor have we died at the hands of our enemies, however, we have still lost more than we could ever have imagined."
 
Words attributed to Abraham Lincoln after surviving his attempted murder by would be assassin and former struggling actor John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln would later die (or natural causes) two years later. Lincoln's reasonable reconstruction of the South saw the Nation begin the heal her wounds. However the Republican Party would split after his death. The radicals and centrists battled each other so much eventually allowing Democrat Sam Tilden to win the Presidency in 1876. This would have great repercussions in the South and the North, as African Americans began to move en masse to the North creating even more conflict between radical and centrist Republicans who blamed each other for the electoral defeat. This would lead to the end of the Republican Party. The Democratic Party would dominate American politics until in 1900 when a young Theodore Roosevelt would win the presidency for the National American Party of Progress, nick names the "Bull Moose Party". After 4 successive terms and a victorious war with Britain Roosevelt would die in office.

"They said Victory or death, yet we have suffered no defeat, nor have we died at the hands of our enemies, however, we have still lost more than we could ever have imagined."

American puppet president William Dudley Pelley.
After victory against the Soviets by means of a fascist government of Edward VIII./Chris Kettings, the Greater European Cooperative - composed of a far-right militarist Germany under a sane Gottfried Manninger, far-right Britain, fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini, fascist Hungary, a NDH under Ante Pavelic, and many other far-right or fascist powers in EUrope), this alliance - despite not being totally free of tensions themselves (Pavelic, for example, was far too radical for most of them, and there were tensions about how to deal with Kurdistan, with the Basque people as they were allowed leeway by Jesus Torres, with Sweden about their Sami genocide,...) - managed to unite behind supporting the far-right "Christian National" Party and rebels in the USA. THe latter ended up divided, and William Dudley Pelley was puppet leader of a state going from Louisiana to Virginia and Maine - east of the Mississippi, but without the Midwest and without much of western PA and NY. And this result could only be obtained by instant sunshine on Washington D.C., San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
So: No true defeat, the death of "only" several million of (contrary to all) Americans, but America has lost much more than it ever could imagine. Valuable and beautiful cities, millions of individual lives, and a lot of arable land that is now irradiated. Plus the Great Lakes which are, from the Chicago 5,9 MT bomb and a misfire (where it was not clear whether Detroit or again Chicago or even Duluth or Minneapolis were to be targeted) into Lake Michigan, now radioactive.

"I will regard this act as slander, and I will personally prosecute this act of slander!"
 
"I will regard this act as slander, and I will personally prosecute this act of slander!"

After the Munich accord, Churchill accused Chamberlain to be a German agent and betraying Great-britain. Chamberlain answered by those words.

"Mr the Prime minister, this is not a revolt but a revolution !"
 
"Mr the Prime minister, this is not a revolt but a revolution !"

Allegedly said in 1940 by Lord Champion Matthias VIII of the Communion of Mossflower to at-that-time Prime Minister Oswald Mosley, in response to Mosley stating to Father Abbess Meriam that the Communion's intentions to declare Independence from the United Kingdom constituted an insurrection. Despite Mosley's conviction, and Scottish non-participation due to the upholding of the Scottish-Woodlander Peace Settlement of 1145, the Communion won out, and maintains its nationhood and independence to this day.

"Strength, Heart, and Lunch."
 
"Strength, Heart, and Lunch."
The famously brief Marshal Suchet, explaining his victory over Wellington in the Peninsular War. Wellington's army had negotiated the rugged mountains of western Spain on the approach march, and deploying his divisions into line of battle took most of the day; by the time it was complete, most of the men hadn't eaten for 24 hours, while the well-rested French enjoyed their meals. Despite a serious of powerful blows along the line, French counterattacks routed the Spanish troops in Wellington's army, which left other formations badly exposed. Fresh reserves pulled the Allied line apart, and scattered the Peninsular Army across Extremadura.

"Never did Genl. McClellan bollox a fight as Grant did here."
-Charles Wainwright.
 
"Never did Genl. McClellan bollox a fight as Grant did here."
-Charles Wainwright.

After a second Battle of Gettysburg, Charles Wainwright wanted to play his important role again, the town - and then neutrality and, very nearly, the whole war, was lost to the CSA. Wainwright blamed Grant's incompetency...

"Allahu Akbar!" - George W. Bush
 
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