A satirical remark about democratic governments struggling to have leaders who were both charismatic and good at the job
a modern summation of Buddhism in a 21st century webvideo
A quote recorded from an argument between Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the UK, and Wendell Willkie President of the US. In closed door meeting Willkie, angry at having sent over a million Americans to die for a 'close run thing' in Europe and the Pacific demanded the UK begin decolonizing starting with India. India, Willkie argued, was a symbol of the principles of domination and conquest that they just fought 10 years to destroy in the Nazi and Japanese Empires. Churchill who was an outspoken Imperialist, shot back with the above quote among a dozen others in a half hour tirade against America 'assuming the mantle the world doesn't need"! The argument led to a massive falling out between the two leaders and led to the UK leaving NATO as relations between the two powers cooled. While still ostensibly allies against Communism America led NATO while the UK and her Commonwealth (which inevitably expanded as decolonization was forced on the UK by the League of Powers) made up a third bloc that sought to unite neutral nations free from American and Soviet influence. While relations would warm somewhat in the 1980s the budding "Special Relationship" between the two countries has never fully recovered and with PM Abbot's denouncement of America's intervention in Mali many don't see it ever recovering.
Union marketing in the early 2010s after a meme went viral with a message about working for a dime and making a penny.
Prime minister Gladstone asking parliament fr a declaration of war against Bismarck's prussia, whose aggressive behaviour was threatening the balance of power
US General Theodore Roosevelt pleading to Congress to join the Great War against the British. Roosevelt's arguments in favor of war eventually won out, and several months later he would lead the push into Canada. Today he is celebrated in Quebec as a national hero who fought for the region's independence after the war.
William F. Buckley's quip on a series of overtly Anti-Christian lectures that led to the replacement of many staff in the University of Notre Dame in 1984.
Howard Ashman on George Katzenberg, discussing his role in Disney after it bought and merged with Paramount in 1991.
Muhammad Ali becomes an atheist instead of a muslim in ttl and attacks a misogynistic sports commentator
The Secretary of Defense's analysis of America's geopolitical decline following the Allied victory over Germany. Although the Soviets had lost, the Nazis had been unable to carry out much of the Slavic ethnic cleansing, and the hamfisted policies of the occupational Allied forces, caused by the lack of a Soviet bogeyman, strengthened the world's bad opinion of them, especially in the ex-colonies.
In a TL where Sweden became a much greater power by holding onto its colonies longer and established new ones, one general spoke this in regards to the people of Alquria, referring to their people as Potatoes, coming from a type of primate native to the area.
A history book for 3rd graders explaining the Northwest Massacre. The spanish took the northwestern portion of the North American continent after the 7 years war, and after a revolt by local natives Spain endorsed total ethnic cleansing in a way similar to the british. France, however, in this TL, retained a basis on the north american continent and invested in native powers that eventually broke the spanish empire. Though this limited the silver trade with Europe.
The French king Louis XVI personally describing the country's imperial clout before a special session of the Royal Council in the Tulieres Palace, with Charles de Gaule as Prime Minister, 1962.
