Explain the AH Quote

[Retiarius]

"I was born with a crown, my family died for this crown. The crown is the nation, the people my children."

Peter IV of Russia, in his abdication speech the day after the Japanese invasion. His condemnation of republicanism & ascension of his brother Paul is seen as a cause of the Anarchist Revolution.

"Just as the blood cells were made to carry nutrients, so were the men of Travelorgani. Just as the skin cells were made to guard borders, so were the the men of Marksorgani. And just as the brain cells were made to direct the Corporis, so were we."

 

[ajdb0614]

"Look, Ma! No Hans!"

An excited German child upon noticing President Johann Kepler's absence from the annual People's Rally (which was televised nationwide). Notorious for his harsh and draconian policies, Kepler was forced to resign in 1986 - after suffering a vote of no confidence in the Volkstag. Leadership of the German Workers' Union passed on to a young prodigy by the name of Oskar Lafontaine, who would implement some landmark reforms in the Radical Socialist state.

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"Ma'am, most wonderful news! The Rhodesians are coming to our aid, the Selous Scouts are on their way here as we speak! We actually might have a chance to drive back those Zulu and Kyrati bastards!"

- A General of the New Californian Republic to President Tandi

(Yeah... side effect of me playing Civilization 5 with mods)

 

[severak]

"Just as the blood cells were made to carry nutrients, so were the men of Travelorgani. Just as the skin cells were made to guard borders, so were the the men of Marksorgani. And just as the brain cells were made to direct the Corporis, so were we."

"Ma'am, most wonderful news! The Rhodesians are coming to our aid, the Selous Scouts are on their way here as we speak! We actually might have a chance to drive back those Zulu and Kyrati bastards!"

- A General of the New Californian Republic to President Tandi

(Yeah... side effect of me playing Civilization 5 with mods)

100 years after World War III, several different factions vied for control over the Pacific Coast of North America. The two major faction were the New California Republic (which, similar to the Holy Roman Empire, was not New [it was a continuation of the Federal Government of Mexico], not Californian [It's heartland was in Sonora], and not a Republic [It was a Catholic Theocracy/Meritocracy]) and it's allies and the Tribal Confederation that was dominated by the Corporis, a group hailing from the area of what was once Seattle, Washington, and dominated several other neighboring tribes, including the slave-class Travelorgani, the military caste (the Marksorgani) and several non-Corporis entities, namely the Zulu, Kyrati, Cascadi and Leefer tribes to their south.
The first quote was spoken by Jobb XXI, head of the Corporis, announcing his faction's ascent to total control of the Corporis various entities. The second quote came three years later, after several of the Corporis' puppet states attacked the Selous Tribe, an allie of the Republic, a move that would begin the 8 years war.


"A ring? You would buy my friendship with a single ring?"

 

[Halocon]

100 years after World War III, several different factions vied for control over the Pacific Coast of North America. The two major faction were the New California Republic (which, similar to the Holy Roman Empire, was not New [it was a continuation of the Federal Government of Mexico], not Californian [It's heartland was in Sonora], and not a Republic [It was a Catholic Theocracy/Meritocracy]) and it's allies and the Tribal Confederation that was dominated by the Corporis, a group hailing from the area of what was once Seattle, Washington, and dominated several other neighboring tribes, including the slave-class Travelorgani, the military caste (the Marksorgani) and several non-Corporis entities, namely the Zulu, Kyrati, Cascadi and Leefer tribes to their south.
The first quote was spoken by Jobb XXI, head of the Corporis, announcing his faction's ascent to total control of the Corporis various entities. The second quote came three years later, after several of the Corporis' puppet states attacked the Selous Tribe, an allie of the Republic, a move that would begin the 8 years war.


"A ring? You would buy my friendship with a single ring?"

Oghul Khatun (not to be confused with Oghul Qaimish) of the Yuan Empire in 1501, in response to a Spanish envoy to her court who presented her with a ring with a peculiar piece of jade. She changed her tune moments later, after the Spaniard told her of the gem's source: the New World, across the seas, prompting Oghul to order an expedition to sail east and find a source of these strange new jades. Upon returning a year and a half later, they presented the riches of a western Mesoamerican city to their ruler, which caused support for a larger military expedition to explode.

In 1506, a Yuan fleet landed on the western coast of Mexico and immediately set about conquering any polity they ran into. This was a critical mistake: due to their warmongering, they soon had an army of Tarascans and even a few Nahuatl arrayed against them, which drove them back to the coast, and eventually far to the north, where they settled in a fertile valley. Though they did not find any jade here, they did find another valuable mineral: gold, which they soon sent back to Oghul Khatun.

The Mongol empire in North America continued to expand, eventually covering much of the West Coast and competing with Spain in that region, leading to a centuries-long stalemate and a rivalry between the two countries that persists to this day.

"Hail unto the Jazzmen under Karlus of the Mountain of the Sands, warrior-poets of the Lost Age!"
"GO TO IT, YE JAZZMEN!"
"May they forever battle Karlus, Son of Man, and his Familium!"
"GO TO IT, YE JAZZMEN!"

 

[Deleted member 97083]

"Hail unto the Jazzmen under Karlus of the Mountain of the Sands, warrior-poets of the Lost Age!"
"GO TO IT, YE JAZZMEN!"
"May they forever battle Karlus, Son of Man, and his Familium!"
"GO TO IT, YE JAZZMEN!"

Chorus of the song Rise of the Jazzmen (1991) by the avant-garde Jazz-Metal band California Ravens. The song became a cult-classic and was featured in the movie 50,000 Miles to the Mountain of Sands (1997), a movie similar to Mad Max.

"America has not yet perished,
so long as we still live.
What the Axis force has taken from us
We shall retrieve with a bazooka.

March, March, George Patton!
From Mexico to Maine.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

We'll cross the Rio,
we'll cross the Mississippi,
We shall be American.

Roosevelt has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.
March, march...
Like Sherman to the Sea

After the German annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.
March, march...

A father, in tears,
Says to his Barbara
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the drums.

March, march..."

 

[GarethC]

Chorus of the song Rise of the Jazzmen (1991) by the avant-garde Jazz-Metal band California Ravens. The song became a cult-classic and was featured in the movie 50,000 Miles to the Mountain of Sands (1997), a movie similar to Mad Max.

"America has not yet perished,
so long as we still live.
What the Axis force has taken from us
We shall retrieve with a bazooka.

March, March, George Patton!
From Mexico to Maine.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.

We'll cross the Rio,
we'll cross the Mississippi,
We shall be American.

Roosevelt has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.
March, march...
Like Sherman to the Sea

After the German annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.
March, march...

A father, in tears,
Says to his Barbara
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the drums.

March, march..."

Despite its heads of state coming from the junior line of the House of Hapsburg, the Mexican Empire remained an ally of the sponsors of its birth, France, Britain, and Spain, and to a lesser extent the United States of America, while the Confederacy swung to cleave to first Prussia and then Germany. The Second War between the States saw a Confederate buildup largely armed by the factories of Prussia expand to the Missouri River before peace could be brokered, and Union sensibilities remained as offended as French ones over Alsace-Lorraine for the following decades.

In the tangled web of alliances and railway timetables that gave rise to the Great War, shortly after the Imperial Germany joined Austria in its war with Russia by attacking France, the Confederacy also struck St. Louis and Kansas City, whose bombardment was the greatest single-day loss of civilian life in the war in North America, and although Mexico had at first resisted considerable pressure from Paris and London to join the war, news of the atrocities inflamed public opinion so much that Emperor Rudolf II declared war one month after German troops entered Belgium.

The Confederacy had its own plans for its southern neighbour, and when Mexico did not repudiate outright the entreaties from the Entente, began to move spoiling forces into place, launching its own raids on the evening Richmond received the war telegram.

The US mission to Mexico included a permanent training battalion, under General Douglas MacArthur at the war's start. MacArthur was awakened by Confederate irregulars, smuggled in on commercial shipping, attacking the US laager, and while running to rally his troops, tripped and broke his neck in the dark. Command was inherited by the battalion CO, Col. Patton, who served with the Mexican counterattack up the Mississippi to retake St Louis, final news of which led to the CSA surrender and reclamation of Missouri.

Union press at the time gave great weight to the Shreveport Raid, a small action by Union cavalry, whose commander Major Paul Roosevelt-Longworth (a distant relative of the later president) was killed in cutting down the Confederate flag from the courthouse.

The Irving Berlin song above (actually titled "Anabasis", though it's almost always referred to as "General Patton" - Patton was breveted Brigadier as soon as news reached Washington) became popularised in the Marx Brothers satire of the war, "Tequila Sunrise".

Next up:
"Kill them all. God will know His own."

 

[AltruisticHedonist]

"Kill them all. God will know His own."

Caliph Abd al-Malik II of the new Ummayad Caliphate, giving the cold action to massacre the Christian rebels of Northern Spain who had taken the area from him just five years prior. This was promptly condemned by the Catholic church, who threatened war with Caliphate for their "sin". Malik refuted this by pointing out similar actions the Church had taken against the Jews of France just a year before. The argument eventually escalated into a "Holy Crusade", widely known as the greatest stalemate war in history.

"My fellow countrymen, bankers, farmers, mechanics, heed my words: do not search for salvation in Tacoma! That vile city which robs all of god's children, and wrings their souls dry. Do not go to Tacoma, I say! Unless you enjoy letting your life slip into the devil's hand that is."

 

[Baron Bizarre]

"My fellow countrymen, bankers, farmers, mechanics, heed my words: do not search for salvation in Tacoma! That vile city which robs all of god's children, and wrings their souls dry. Do not go to Tacoma, I say! Unless you enjoy letting your life slip into the devil's hand that is."

Radio evangelist Pastor William "Bible Bill" Bennett, reacting to the legalization of casino gambling in North Oregon.

"Say what you will about Larry Beria, but he was the most gut-bustingly funny man I have ever known."

 

[Halocon]

Radio evangelist Pastor William "Bible Bill" Bennett, reacting to the legalization of casino gambling in North Oregon.

"Say what you will about Larry Beria, but he was the most gut-bustingly funny man I have ever known."

British comedian Dennis Hatfield on his former colleague, Russian immigrant Larry Beria.

Before 1967, Beria had been one of the most popular comics in all of Britain: his show, Larry Berry's Laughing Hour, garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers every night for decades, and he was beloved as a family-friendly television personality, a symbol of a revived Britain.

All that came crashing down in 1967: in May of that year, Birmingham police received an anonymous call that claimed to report strange noises coming from Beria's house; Beria was at the studio filming at the time. When police entered his house, they did indeed hear noises--noises that sounded like people crying out. Following the sound, they broke open Beria's attic, revealing six naked and bound young adults, three male and three female.

Upon freeing the six, the officers found that they were former drug addicts who had been taken off the streets for use in Beria's second profession: running the largest sex trafficking ring in British history, as investigations over the next three months revealed. Between 1950 and 1967, it is estimated that the "Laughing Band" kidnapped and sold as many as 3,000 people of all ages as sexual slaves, with Beria often keeping a few young women for himself to "use."

Three days after the initial bust, Beria was arrested based on the evidence found in his house; in August, his trial began; and on September 11th, 1967, he was found guilty of human trafficking and sexual assault, handed a life sentence. He died in prison in Scotland a year later, found stabbed to death in a corridor; it is still unclear who did it, and given Beria's reputation, it is unlikely an investigation will begin on it.

"What? Are you still alive? You are joking! You have got to be kidding me!"

 

[riskyrofl]

British comedian Dennis Hatfield on his former colleague, Russian immigrant Larry Beria.

Before 1967, Beria had been one of the most popular comics in all of Britain: his show, Larry Berry's Laughing Hour, garnered hundreds of thousands of viewers every night for decades, and he was beloved as a family-friendly television personality, a symbol of a revived Britain.

All that came crashing down in 1967: in May of that year, Birmingham police received an anonymous call that claimed to report strange noises coming from Beria's house; Beria was at the studio filming at the time. When police entered his house, they did indeed hear noises--noises that sounded like people crying out. Following the sound, they broke open Beria's attic, revealing six naked and bound young adults, three male and three female.

Upon freeing the six, the officers found that they were former drug addicts who had been taken off the streets for use in Beria's second profession: running the largest sex trafficking ring in British history, as investigations over the next three months revealed. Between 1950 and 1967, it is estimated that the "Laughing Band" kidnapped and sold as many as 3,000 people of all ages as sexual slaves, with Beria often keeping a few young women for himself to "use."

Three days after the initial bust, Beria was arrested based on the evidence found in his house; in August, his trial began; and on September 11th, 1967, he was found guilty of human trafficking and sexual assault, handed a life sentence. He died in prison in Scotland a year later, found stabbed to death in a corridor; it is still unclear who did it, and given Beria's reputation, it is unlikely an investigation will begin on it.

"What? Are you still alive? You are joking! You have got to be kidding me!"

Remarks of a firing squad member Private Roosevelt as the Bishop of Monterrey stood, upright and alive after his failed execution by American troops in 1879. The troops then beat the Bishop, Jose Obrecon to death but his story none the less survived and became a symbol of the revolutionaries in the Second Mexican War of Independence.

The bishops head was retrieved after being chopped off by Roosevelt, eventually falling into the hands of the rebels and was present during many important events of the war. Socialist journalist John Pulitzer wrote of it while writing on the retreat into Guatemala, at the Battle of Oaxaca the head was held by Lieutenant and future Secretary-General Gonzalo Carrasco as the city was liberated from French occupation, and it was brought to Spanish Cuba for the signing of the Treaty of Havana. To this day the head remains in the Congress of Patriots and Workers in Guadalajara.

"And so the Courier, who had cheated death in the cemetery outside Goodsprings, cheated death once again, and the Mojave Wasteland was forever changed"

 

[H.Flashman(VC)]

Remarks of a firing squad member Private Roosevelt as the Bishop of Monterrey stood, upright and alive after his failed execution by American troops in 1879. The troops then beat the Bishop, Jose Obrecon to death but his story none the less survived and became a symbol of the revolutionaries in the Second Mexican War of Independence.

The bishops head was retrieved after being chopped off by Roosevelt, eventually falling into the hands of the rebels and was present during many important events of the war. Socialist journalist John Pulitzer wrote of it while writing on the retreat into Guatemala, at the Battle of Oaxaca the head was held by Lieutenant and future Secretary-General Gonzalo Carrasco as the city was liberated from French occupation, and it was brought to Spanish Cuba for the signing of the Treaty of Havana. To this day the head remains in the Congress of Patriots and Workers in Guadalajara.

"And so the Courier, who had cheated death in the cemetery outside Goodsprings, cheated death once again, and the Mojave Wasteland was forever changed"

Last sentence of the Fallout trilogy of Philip K. Dick. Written between 1964 and 1969. The trilogy deals with a future dystopian United States several years after an all-out nuclear war. The first part is set in California, the second in Washington and the third in the surroundings of Las Vegas. The trilogy is noted for some uncanny predictions about future technology, like PC's and e-mail and a rudimentary internet.
All the usual themes of Dick are present, most notably his play with what is reality. At one point in the novel the protagonist steps into a VR simulation of the invasion of Alaska (not by the USSR but by China!)where death in the simulation means death in real life. But even more interesting is the overal structure of the trilogy. There are several hints throughout the books that suggest that the protagonists are somehow controlled by an invisible hand who controls their interactions with this world. There are plenty of passages where 'the hero' mechanily takes performance enhancing drugs (Another one of Dicks recurring themes) just to solve a difficult task ahead. Even more striking is a fightpassage which is described at least three times, as if the controller of the 'hero' wasn't satisfied with the results.

"It was a bright warm day in August, and the clocks were striking eleven" George Orwell, 1995

 

[HIM Dogson]

"It was a bright warm day in August, and the clocks were striking eleven" George Orwell, 1995

The first passage of 1995, one of the greatest dystopias of all time. The plot chronicles O'brien, who begins life as a teenager struck by poverty in a futuristic society where the elite, led by the sinister Prime Minister Snow, lord over the poor like feudal overlords. The first act of the novel chronicles O'brien's founding of a Revolutionary society two bring equality, the second act chronicles O'brien's victory in the Revolution through the use of many unsavory tactics that harm innocents, and the final act is O'brien's final consolidation of power, purging of his former allies, mainly his former best friend Emmanuel Goldstein, and descent into evil, finally ending with him accepting that he only cares about power. The story was written so well that O'brien's fall was entirely believable; especially infamous is a scene where he tells the now imprisoned Prime Minister Snow that "The future is a boot stamping down on a face, forever", an ironic echo of what Snow told O'Brien when he was a prisoner earlier in the book. Clocks are a recurring motif in the story, with a big theme being the idea of controlling the past; one of the scenes in the third act is O'Brien discovering evidence that Snow's regime came to power in much the same way his did, and started fighting for equality; he burns this evidence. Interestingly, the story was originally written to have O'Brien be a straight hero, with Orwell optimistic about the future of the Union of Britain, but Orwell changed almost the entire book because he was dismayed about the rise of the Totalist Oswald Mosely. After the Second Restoration the book has been included in the pantheon of British literature, with Orwell's own Syndicalism edited out, of course, ironic given the theme of distorting history.

"How could you possibly say what you do is normal? Most people are destitute and don't turn to mass murder!"
"True, but I'm hardly most people."

 

[Whiteshore]

"How could you possibly say what you do is normal? Most people are destitute and don't turn to mass murder!"
"True, but I'm hardly most people."

A conversation between General Zhang Gang, ferocious war criminal in the army of the Empire of China and the RoC general who captured him. Zhang Gang was executed the next day after a 30 minute long trial which many call a "show trial" even though he might have deserved to have been executed.

One of the three here:

"Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man.
Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven.
Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill."

"In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first (insert national demonym) Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years."

"When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground"

 

[ajdb0614]

"In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first (insert national demonym) Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years."

Emperor Julius I in a speech to the people, shortly after surviving an attempt on his life by several senators. The Emperor of Rome's Caesarean dynasty, he would reign for 29 years, before dying in his sleep. He was succeeded by his nephew - Emperor Octavian.

The full speech is as follows:

The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed, but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger. The war is over. The Sepratists have been defeated, and the Jedi rebellion has been foiled. We stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Roman Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for 10,000 years. By bringing the entirity of Mare Nostrum under one law, one language, and the enlightened guidance of one individual, the corruption that plagued the Republic in its later years will never take root. Regional governors will eliminate the bureaucracy that allowed the Old Senate's decadence to grow unchecked. A strong and growing military will ensure the rule of law. Under the Empire's New Order, our most cherished beliefs will be safeguarded. We will defend our ideals by force of arms. We will give no ground to our enemies and we will stand together against attacks from with or without. Let the enemies of the Empire take heed: Those who challenge Imperial resolve will be crushed. We have been tested, but we have emerged stronger. We moved forward as one people - the Imperial citizens of the first Galactic Empire. We will prevail. Ten thousand years of peace begins today.

...

“Lusaka Tower, this is Green Leader. This is a message for the station commander at Mumba from the Rhodesian Air Force. We are attacking the terrorist base at Westlands farm at this time. This attack is against Rhodesian dissidents and not against Zambia. Rhodesia has no quarrel, repeat, no quarrel, with Zambia or her security forces. We therefore ask you not to intervene or oppose our attack. However, we are orbiting your airfield at this time and are under orders to shoot down any Zambian Air Force aircraft which does not comply with this request and attempts to take off. Did you copy all that?”

 

[Tales Weaver]

“Lusaka Tower, this is Green Leader. This is a message for the station commander at Mumba from the Rhodesian Air Force. We are attacking the terrorist base at Westlands farm at this time. This attack is against Rhodesian dissidents and not against Zambia. Rhodesia has no quarrel, repeat, no quarrel, with Zambia or her security forces. We therefore ask you not to intervene or oppose our attack. However, we are orbiting your airfield at this time and are under orders to shoot down any Zambian Air Force aircraft which does not comply with this request and attempts to take off. Did you copy all that?”

This was an excuse for attack oh zambia by rhodesian dictator, Robert Mugabe. But this backfired as Zambia was a liberal, first world democracy. This attack on zambia resulted in Zambia-Rhodesian War, with USA supporting Zambia. This war ended when Harare was taken by zambian army. And Mugabe was captured by Zambian Army.


"The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid."

 

[riskyrofl]

This was an excuse for attack oh zambia by rhodesian dictator, Robert Mugabe. But this backfired as Zambia was a liberal, first world democracy. This attack on zambia resulted in Zambia-Rhodesian War, with USA supporting Zambia. This war ended when Harare was taken by zambian army. And Mugabe was captured by Zambian Army.


"The defense department regrets to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid."

For 12 years the Italian people had strained under the pressure of the Colonial Wars. 40,000 young Italian men killed attempting to preserve the empire in Italian East Africa and Tunisia-Libya. But the straw that would break the back came on the 11th of November 1961. Following a recent dispute between two of the most influential families in Naples, the Cinquemani's and the Morgante's, the young Aleandro Cinquemani decided to pull a prank phone call on the Morgante family, knowing the Morgante son Stefano had been one of many killed in the massacre of Harar. Pretending to be from the Department of Defense Aleandro insulted the Morgante family and their recently deceased son. Too much of a coward to admit to his crimes, Aleandro remained quiet as outrage over the call spread across Naples and then across Italy. Despite the government denying any involvement in the call, the outrage would not quell and the largest protests of the war began in Italy. While the protests were originally over the call they soon grew to cover issues of poverty, unemployment, republicanism and bringing an end to the war. After 6 weeks of intense protests, strikes, assassination attempts, riots and further defeats overseas the King and Government were forced to concede. Ceasefires were immediately called on the 21st of December and on the 24th Parliament was dissolved and a referendum on a republic was initiated. On the 5th of January 1962, the Italian people voted in favour of a republic and the Italian Socialist Party won 58% of votes, forming its first government. Peace talks began in Malta on the 26th of January, and on the 4th of May the Valetta Peace Accords were signed, ending Italian rule over it's African colonies.

"Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!"

 

[Baron Bizarre]

"Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!"

Quote attributed to the moderate cleric Ruhollah Khomeini, regarding Ayatollah Ali Razmara, shortly after the first "Islamic Revolution" in Persia in 1951. Khomeini, who foresaw Razmara's excesses earlier than most, disappeared shortly thereafter. His fate remains unknown.

"Well, everyone knows that the police investigation into Baron Savile's death was so cursory as to be farcical. I mean, 'Killed by a person or person unknown'? When there were fifty eyewitnesses? But what most people don't know is the real reason why his murderer was essentially allowed to go scot-free. It wasn't why everyone thinks."

 

[X_Eaglefrost_X]

Quote attributed to the moderate cleric Ruhollah Khomeini, regarding Ayatollah Ali Razmara, shortly after the first "Islamic Revolution" in Persia in 1951. Khomeini, who foresaw Razmara's excesses earlier than most, disappeared shortly thereafter. His fate remains unknown.

"Well, everyone knows that the police investigation into Baron Savile's death was so cursory as to be farcical. I mean, 'Killed by a person or person unknown'? When there were fifty eyewitnesses? But what most people don't know is the real reason why his murderer was essentially allowed to go scot-free. It wasn't why everyone thinks."

A quote from British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, on the subject of the murder of diplomat John Savile in 1887. At the time, Savile was trying to negotiate a Treaty with France to end the War of Prussian Succession, an move that was unpopular with the public.

"We will fight the Austrians around every corner. We hold them at the rivers. They will pay dearly for every block, every street, every inch of ground they take. We will drive them out of our nation, and we will push them to Vienna. We will burn their fields and they're cities, they're forests and their bridges. We will never surrender!"

 

[HIM Dogson]

A quote from British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, on the subject of the murder of diplomat John Savile in 1887. At the time, Savile was trying to negotiate a Treaty with France to end the War of Prussian Succession, an move that was unpopular with the public.

"We will fight the Austrians around every corner. We hold them at the rivers. They will pay dearly for every block, every street, every inch of ground they take. We will drive them out of our nation, and we will push them to Vienna. We will burn their fields and they're cities, they're forests and their bridges. We will never surrender!"

Maximillian Robespierre was able to hold on to power and defeat the Thermidorian Reaction. However, the war concurrently turned against the Republic, as French attempts to breach the Rhine were thwarted by the brilliant Archduke Charles. Charles would untimately push the Revolutionaries to the gates of Paris, where Robespierre gave a speech demanding that "Their contemptible Emperor be sacrificed to the altar of the Supreme Being!" Robespierre would ultimately be captured in the middle of his speech, which was cut short after fifteen hours of ranting and raving. After a trial, he would be executed by guillotine, the last such execution before the instrument was torn down. Austria would ultimately unify Germany after its defeat of Prussia, and Germany-Hungary and France remain close allies.

"What if Hitler cured cancer? Don't question it!"

 

[Mister Abbadon]

Maximillian Robespierre was able to hold on to power and defeat the Thermidorian Reaction. However, the war concurrently turned against the Republic, as French attempts to breach the Rhine were thwarted by the brilliant Archduke Charles. Charles would untimately push the Revolutionaries to the gates of Paris, where Robespierre gave a speech demanding that "Their contemptible Emperor be sacrificed to the altar of the Supreme Being!" Robespierre would ultimately be captured in the middle of his speech, which was cut short after fifteen hours of ranting and raving. After a trial, he would be executed by guillotine, the last such execution before the instrument was torn down. Austria would ultimately unify Germany after its defeat of Prussia, and Germany-Hungary and France remain close allies.

"What if Hitler cured cancer? Don't question it!"

Harry s. Truman explaining his reasoning for the atomic bombing of Danzing and Nuremberg on the grounds that the Nazi regime was so evil nothing could be done to redeem them. The previous "what if hitler cured cancer?" Was in response to a citizen asking if he still would have ordered the bombings if the Nazis had surrendered conditionally. The answer seemed to be unquestionably be yes.


"I don't weep for the self destructive, I'd be crying all day."