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->''Yesterday we were an army with no country. Tomorrow, we have to decide which country we want to buy!''
-->-- '''Simon Gruber''', ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''

->'''Quintus:''' People should know when they are conquered.\\
'''Maximus:''' Would you, Quintus? Would I?
-->-- ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''

->''They call me terrorist, radical, zealot, because I obey the ancient laws of my people, the Kree... and punish those who do not. Because I do not forgive your people for taking the life of my father, and his father, and his father before him. A thousand years of war between us will not be forgotten!''
-->-- '''Ronan the Accuser''', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''

->'''Foot Ninja:''' Is this it?
->'''Dirty Blonde Haired Foot Ninja:''' Everyone else must've been picked up. ''(Slams his fist down in anger)''
->'''Young Boy Foot Ninja:''' Well, maybe they didn't find us.
->'''Dirty Blonde Haired Foot Ninja:''' Hey, we all knew the junkyard was our fallback spot.
-->-- ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze''

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[[folder:Literature]]

->"Rearm?" Pellaeon threw him a quizzical frown. "Have you taken even a cursory look at what we're working with here?" He gestured out the viewport at the Preybirds, disappearing now beneath the edge of the ''Chimaera'''s hull as they headed for the Star Destroyer's hangar. "Look at them, Captain. [=SoroSuub=] Preybirds. We're reduced to [=SoroSuub=] Preybirds."\\
"There's nothing wrong with the Preybirds, sir," Ardiff said stubbornly. "They're a quite capable midsize starfighter."\\
"The point is that they're not being manufactured by the Empire," Pellaeon said. "They're being scrounged from who knows where - probably some fringe pirate or mercenary gang. And they're being scrounged precisely because we're down to a single major shipyard and it can't keep up with demand for capital ships, let alone starfighters. So tell me how you plan for us to rearm ourselves."\\
Ardiff looked out the viewport. "It's still not over yet, sir."\\
But it was. And deep down, Pellaeon was sure Ardiff knew it as well as he did. A thousand systems left, out of an Empire that had once spanned a million. Two hundred Star Destroyers remaining from a Fleet that had once included over twenty-five thousand of them.\\
And perhaps most telling of all, hundreds of star systems that had once maintained a cautious neutrality were now petitioning the New Republic for membership. They, too, knew that the outcome was no longer uncertain.
-->-- ''[[Literature/HandOfThrawn Star Wars: Specter of the Past]]''

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->''Now Volantis is the ember of Old Valyria, ensuring that its flame does not go out from this world... [[PatrioticFervor as any Volantene will tell you]]. Pentoshi say the same about [[MerchantCity Pentos]], Lysenes about [[ViceCity Lys]], and so on. But after enough time in the Nine Free Cities, it is hard to see them as anything but ashes of glory...''
-->-- '''Ser Jorah Mormont,''' ''Series/GameOfThrones: History and Lore of Westeros - The Free Cities''

->'''Jaime Lannister:''' The war is over, Ser. Why sacrifice living men to a lost cause?\\
'''Blackfish Tully:''' As long as I'm standing, the war is ''not'' over.
-->-- ''[[Series/GameOfThrones Game Of Thrones]]'', "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS6E7TheBrokenMan The Broken Man]]"

->'''Sulu:''' But the cause they fought about no longer exists. Does it matter now which one was right?\\
'''Spock:''' All that matters to them is their hate.\\
'''Uhura:''' Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?\\
'''Kirk:''' No, but that's all they have left.
-->-- ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]"

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[[folder:Music]]

->''Just a jaded debate\\
Passion left in the past\\
Is it time to move on,\\
To surrender at last?\\
Must we really fight on\\
When we don't give a damn?\\
Is it time for release,\\
For an end to this sham?''
-->-- '''Music/TheHumanLeague''', "Sin City"

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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]

->Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The authorities that exist have been established by God.]] Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is [[RageAgainstTheHeavens rebelling against what God has instituted]], and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.
-->-- '''Romans 13:1-5''', ''Literature/TheBible (New International Version)''

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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]

->''We have returned! Death to the False Emperor!''
-->-- '''Black Legion battlecry''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

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[[folder:Video Games]]

->'''Clarke:''' Hey, who the hell are you guys?\\
'''Norton:''' [=EarthGov=]'s last battalion. Name's Norton. Captain Robert Norton. That's Sergeant John Carver.\\
'''Clarke:''' Last battalion... what do you mean?\\
'''Norton:''' Last means last, genius. As in no more left.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3''

->''Dear Old Friend, Remember [[VideoGame/{{Fallout2}} Navarro]].''
-->-- '''Password to the Enclave Bunker''', ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

->No glands, [[WeCanRebuildHim replaced by tech]]. No digestive system, [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke replaced by tech]]. No soul. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Replaced by tech.]] [[ThatManIsDead Whatever they were, gone forever.]] No art, no culture, closer to [[ArtificialZombie husks]] than slaves, tools for Reapers. [[ThatManIsDead Protheans dead, Collectors just final insult.]]
-->-- '''Mordin Solus''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

->''The world you live in... you know it does not fit [[VichyEarth what we were promised.]] A life without pain. Clean city centers. An order to the world that made sense. But now... [[FantasticRacism the zoo is run by the animals, and they're content to smear the walls.]]\\
[[LaResistance They]] imprisoned [[FormerRegimePersonnel you.]] Placed you in a box. Ran "tests." All for [[HalfHumanHybrid what you were]]. And then, a final indignity: you, the master of this world, forced to swear loyalty... to them. They wanted your word, but their own words? (''dark chuckle'') They mean ''nothing.'' You weren't in a prison, it was a "repatriation camp." Almost sounds pleasant, a place for their hideous offspring to waste their summers. But you? ''You'' see the truth: [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill the Old World,]] risen from where we first drowned it.\\
Do not adjust. Do not change. For now you walk [[ReligionOfEvil the Bonded Stair.]]''
-->-- '''Sacred Coil propaganda broadcasts''', ''VideoGame/XCOMChimeraSquad''

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[[folder:Web Original]]
->When the fires of the [[Franchise/StarWars Galactic Civil War]] had finally been extinguished, and a peace treaty was signed, there arose the great task of sifting through all the details. Only by studying what remained of the Imperial Archives and the countless code cylinders, logs, and other captured documentation could the full scale of the Galactic Empire's crimes become known. For decades, the New Republic's intelligence services commanded an army of investigators, analysts, and clerks to pour over every communique sent, every order given, every fact committed to Imperial records. Old battlefields were analyzed, starship wrecks left adrift were recovered and studied. It was an arduous task, for many of the last acts of the Galactic Empire were devoted to {{destroy|The Evidence}}ing its darkest secrets and covert plans.\\
It was from this great effort that the first warning signs arose. The discrepancies were subtle, but as more were found, a pattern began to emerge. Within the official Imperial logs, Star Destroyers were recorded as lost in battles in which they couldn't have participated. Stormtrooper legions were marked as destroyed in campaigns in which they were never deployed. More and more, as the war dragged on towards its inevitable conclusion, the orders of the Imperial military shifted from strategic defense to something else entirely.\\
Confident in their supremacy over the galaxy, the New Republic [[ItsProbablyNothing dismissed these inconsistencies]] as the natural consequence of the Imperial military's disintegration into rival warlords. Without a single unifying figure, an heir to the Emperor, such chaos, it was argued, was to be expected. And while this reasoning could explain a great many of the mysterious orders and redeployments made in the final months of the Galactic Empire, New Republic intelligence was forced to admit that large formations of the Imperial military, together with high level administrators, technologists, and nobles had simply disappeared. Had the New Republic pursued this mystery in earnest, then the galaxy might have been spared a second great war, and the victory of the rebellion not have been [[Film/TheForceAwakens so easily overturned]].\\
Instead, the missing fleets and armies of the Empire, its highest remaining leaders and most ardent supporters, were given a respite, hidden in the depths of the Unknown Regions. Here, to their astonishment, they found a base of power waiting for them, from which they could one day return to the greater galaxy and reform the Empire. This was their [[TitleDrop first order]].
-->-- ''WebVideo/TheTemplinInstitute'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvMNAyGD_Dw The First Order Reimagined]]"
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[[folder:Western Animation]]

->'''WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam:''' My orders from General Lee is to hold the Mason-Dixie line and no Yankees are crossing it!\\
'''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny:''' General Lee? Why, the War Between the States ended almost 90 years ago.\\
'''Yosemite Sam:''' I ain't no clockwatcher!
-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Southern Fried Rabbit]]''

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