Name That Quote

Similar to another game of this nature.
Basically you write a quote and someone else writes an explanation of historical context and another quote. And the process repeats itself.
Without further ado let's begin!
"Why does it have to be today?"
 
"Why does it have to be today?"

President Matthew Criders rhetorical question to his security forces as they evacuate him from a birthday party being held for the German Kaiser in Hamburg.

A half hour later Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig would be hit with nuclear bombs and would mark the beginnings of the Atom/Mushroom war.


“Never tell me the odds.”
Captain Joseph Smith Jr.
 
The last known words of the deceased captain who died in mysterious circumstances while on leave in Macau.

"Just push one more time and it will be all over...."
 
Doctor attending Merope Gaunt. Unfortunately the child was stillborn and Merope died shortly thereafter.


“One word just keeps echoing over and over again. Regret, Regret, Regret.....”
 

Driftless

Donor
"Well,.... I'll be damned" - George Armstrong Custer - June 25, 1876. On the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River
 
Doctor attending Merope Gaunt. Unfortunately the child was stillborn and Merope died shortly thereafter.


“One word just keeps echoing over and over again. Regret, Regret, Regret.....”
James Buchanan's last words after regretting not preventing the Civil War. 1868.
"Well,.... I'll be damned" - George Armstrong Custer - June 25, 1876. On the bluffs above the Little Big Horn River
Custer's words before the Battle of Little Big Horn after realizing only a small force was there.
"Don't take him. Take me."
 
President John F. Kennedy’s attempt to prevent his brother from being taken by the Azidian Empire after the United States capitol fell to alien hands. The aliens demanded 5,000 humans turned over every year to be sent off world to serve in labor camps.

The plea was to prevent Robert Kennedy from being part of the first batch.

“Taking Leningrad was simple. Use the ice covered lake to bring in tanks.” Erwin Rommel
 
Erwin Romnel describes the Battle of Leningrad which was a Nazi landslide to a newspaper 1950.
"Why does this have to happen right now?"
 
The front page of The Sun after the general election is called coinciding on the day of the first England match of the 2010 World Cup.

"I pushed it around a bit then all of a sudden my back felt very wet" (Good luck with that one lads)
 
The front page of The Sun after the general election is called coinciding on the day of the first England match of the 2010 World Cup.

"I pushed it around a bit then all of a sudden my back felt very wet" (Good luck with that one lads)
Excerpt from the memoirs of John F Kennedy, a long time U.S senator when he was shot in 1943.
"I paid for the microphone."
 
Quote from an angry civilian at a town hall in Sacramento. The local leaders were trying to shut him up after he exposed their plans. The man stood his ground and caused six men including Ronald Reagan to be arrested for corruption. Circa 1982.


They can conquer our country, and brutalize our people, but they cannot take one thing from us. Being human. LBJ
 
Quote from an angry civilian at a town hall in Sacramento. The local leaders were trying to shut him up after he exposed their plans. The man stood his ground and caused six men including Ronald Reagan to be arrested for corruption. Circa 1982.


They can conquer our country, and brutalize our people, but they cannot take one thing from us. Being human. LBJ
LBJ after the occupation of the United States by the U.K
"Blasted Lodge."
 
An angry Archie Andrews who is banned from Lodge mansion after proposing to Betty Cooper rather than Veronica Lodge.


“Due to persecutions laid upon this people in Missouri along with other regions of this country, I hear by declare secession from the United States of America.” Joseph Smith Jr.
 
An angry Archie Andrews who is banned from Lodge mansion after proposing to Betty Cooper rather than Veronica Lodge.


“Due to persecutions laid upon this people in Missouri along with other regions of this country, I hear by declare secession from the United States of America.” Joseph Smith Jr.
President Joseph Smith Jr declaring sucession from the United States of America. This began the American Civil War. Which resulted in the formation of the Republic of Missouri which lives on to this day.
"Lubishank! Lubishank! Lubishank!"
 

Tovarich

Banned
Fun game, but wouldn't it be better in Chat?

Generally speaking, that's where somebody looking for a game will go.
 
They have a pretty successful one going in the pre 1900s one. I think he just wanted to include it here as well. I don’t know all the rules so this could very well belong in chat.
 
"Lubishank! Lubishank! Lubishank!"
A popular pronunciation though deeply false based on a common mishearing of Lulu's Shack from the 1950's cult classic 'To The Shack'. The phrase is more popularly remembered from the one time urban legend about the "Ghost of Lubishank" who's lore mirrors that of "Bloody Mary" immensely.

"For the last time Blinkinsop.... wrong hole!"
 
Fun game, but wouldn't it be better in Chat?

Generally speaking, that's where somebody looking for a game will go.
They have a pretty successful one going in the pre 1900s one. I think he just wanted to include it here as well. I don’t know all the rules so this could very well belong in chat.
If this belongs in chat then a mod can move it there.
A popular pronunciation though deeply false based on a common mishearing of Lulu's Shack from the 1950's cult classic 'To The Shack'. The phrase is more popularly remembered from the one time urban legend about the "Ghost of Lubishank" who's lore mirrors that of "Bloody Mary" immensely.

"For the last time Blinkinsop.... wrong hole!"
A line from an episode of Sesame Street. Where they try to teach children to stay away from manholes. It is one of the weirder episodes. 1977.
"That's how those break."
 
A line from yet another of the more unusual Sesame Street episodes but from 1988 where Bert learns not to play with Ernie's balls in the house.

"He keeps his gerbils where?!"
 
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