History Quotes / HOLDTHELINE

-->--'''Earth Alliance President Elizabeth Levy''', ''[[Film/BabylonFive In The Beginning]]'', ''Series/BabylonFive''

-->--'''Earth Alliance President Elizabeth Levy''', ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm01InTheBeginning In The Beginning]]'', ''Series/BabylonFive''

->''"This is...This is the President. I've just been informed that our midrange military bases at Beta Durani and Proxima 3 have fallen to the Minbari advance. We've lost contact with Io and must conclude that they too have fallen to an advance force. Our military intelligence believes that the Minbari intend to bypass Mars and hit Earth directly and the attack may come at any time. We have continued to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy. And they have not responded. We therefore can only conclude... that we stand at the twilight of the Human race. In order to buy more time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for the support of every ship capable of fighting to take part in a last defense of our homeworld. We will not lie to you. We do not believe that survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle... will never come home. But for every ten minutes we can delay the military advance, several hundred civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral territory. Though Earth may fall, the Human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a people than I ask you now... to step forward one last time... one last battle, to hold the line against the night. May God go with you all."''

->''"The humble Terran. Mamalia Primate Homo Sapien. His foes are galaxy-spanning horrors that will consume the stars, and terrifying dogmatic aliens with technology to make him and his species look like slugs. He must defend himself against whatever the universe can throw at him with an autorifle and power armour that was around before this homeworld existed, supported with ships and vehicles that barely hold together. He has no lineage, no training, no powers...''\\\

->''Current Objective: Survive''
-->--'''On-Screen Instructions''', ''VideoGame/HaloReach''

->''“Don’t forget that [[BadassBoast you’re First Marines!]] Not [[DirtyCommunists all the Communists in hell]] can overrun you!”''

->''If we can’t stay here alive, then let us stay here dead."''

->''"LOOK AT THIS FUCKING GUARDSMAN.''"

->''"He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.''"

->''"Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.''"

->''"His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon slightly more powerful than a flashlight. A single electrified claw from Horus' weapon is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.''"

->''"He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.''"

->''"Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing and holds the FUCKING line."''
-->-- '''Speech in honor of Ollanius Pius''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''Graf Gurnzeig''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', "Siege of St. Thor's conviction"

-->--'''Earth Alliance President Elizabeth Levy''', ''[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon 5: In the Beginning]]''

->''"LOOK AT THIS FUCKING GUARDSMAN.

He's spent months fighting a grueling war in which his enemies are demigods allied with daemons, and now he's found himself in the closest thing to Hell he's ever known. He probably wasn't even supposed to get teleported up to the arch-traitor's battle barge in the first place, and just ended up in the wrong place at the worst possible time.

Somehow he's survived horrors beyond comprehension to make his way to the very bridge of Horus' flagship. He saw a veritable angel call upon Horus to answer for his crimes, and he saw that angel die as messily as any guardsman. His Emperor - who he fervently believes is a god incarnate, even if he's not supposed to - lies mortally wounded, and Horus, perhaps, has taken a moment to gloat before he strikes the killing blow.

His armor is slightly more effective than tissue paper, his weapon slightly more powerful than a flashlight. A single electrified claw from Horus' weapon is bigger than his entire body. He stands before a being infused by the dark gods with incalculable power, that can and will obliterate his soul with no more effort than it would take him to swat a gnat. Nothing he can do could possibly make a difference.

He could run. He could turn his weapon on himself. He could give in to the insidious whispers that echo from the ship's corridors into his mind.

Ollanius Pius does the duty his Emperor requires of him. He dies standing and holds the FUCKING line."''

->"Get your [[BadassGay lovely asses]] out of here! ''(guns down soldier rushing at him)'' Just holding the fort!"

->''"What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over ... [[DecisiveBattle the Battle of Britain]] is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Christianity Christian]] civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, [[EarnYourHappyEnding all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands]]. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, [[CrapsackWorld will sink into the abyss]] of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science]]. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, [[BadassBoast men will still say, This was their finest hour.]]''"

->''YIBAMBE!''[[note]] Xhosa for "[[TitleDrop Hold the line]]" or "Hold fast"[[/note]]

''YIBAMBE!''[[note]] Xhosa for "[[TitleDrop Hold the line]]" or "Hold fast"[[/note]]

-->-- Winston Churchill, before the Battle of Britain

''“Don’t forget that [[BadassBoast you’re First Marines!]] Not [[DirtyCommunists all the Communists in hell]] can overrun you!”''

''"What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over ... [[DecisiveBattle the Battle of Britain]] is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Christianity Christian]] civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, [[EarnYourHappyEnding all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands]]. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, [[CrapsackWorld will sink into the abyss]] of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science]]. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, [[BadassBoast men will still say, This was their finest hour.]]''"

''"What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over ... [[DecisiveBattle the Battle of Britain]] is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Christianity Christian]] civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, [[EarnYourHappyEnding all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands]]. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, [[CrapsackWorld will sink into the abyss]] of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science]]. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, [[BasassBoast men will still say, This was their finest hour.]]''"

-->-- '''[[BadassPreacher Chaplain Varnus]] of the Ultramarines''', [[VideoGame/DawnofWar Dawn of War: Winter Assault]]