Quotes from the New Campaign Trail and its various mods.
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The New Campaign Trail
"Injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere."
"I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
"Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly."
—Robert Kennedy
"Who am I? Why am I here?"
—James Stockdale
"My failures have been error in judgement, not intent."
"Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country."
"Vote for the crook. It's important."
"It's the economy stupid!"
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend four sharpening the axe"
"I have binders full of women!"
"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
"I'm Gerald Ford, and you're not."
"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"
"Extremism, in the defense of liberty, is no vice."
"Keep cool with Coolidge!"
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable"
"Every man a king, but no one wears a crown!"
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"In your heart, you know he's right!"
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,"
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"Politics have no relations to morals."
"Thomas Jefferson lives."
"Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine!"
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
—Patrick Henry
"All men are created equal"
1498 Florence
"Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God."
—Girolamo Savonarola
"God alone therefore is my refuge."
—Girolamo Savonarola
1793 - Alternate North American Revolution
"I am against every single one of you. I am for the terror."
—Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
"Liberty, equality, fraternity; let us stand for these principles, or let us die."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"The Reign of Terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, and inflexible."
"To be neutral is to be complicit in the oppression of the people."
—Jean-Paul Marat
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
"The only way to deal with tyrants is to destroy them."
—Jacques Pierre Brissot
"The people are the only legitimate source of power, and it is their right and duty to overthrow tyrants."
—Marquis de Lafayette
"The Reign of Terror is the most moral and most necessary of all revolutions."
—Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
—Montesquieu
"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
—Charles Peguy
"The Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
—Jacques Mallet du Pan
"The Reign of Terror is not an act of madness, but the logical consequence of revolutionary principles."
—Jean-Baptiste Carrier
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake, of searching and experimenting, of saying no to any authority, literary, artistic, philosophical, religious or social, even if it is constituted and supported by public opinion or highly qualified experts."
—Ignazio Silone
"The Reign of Terror is not the work of a few fanatics, but the inevitable result of the principles of the Revolution."
—Joseph Fouché
"The only true way to defend liberty is to attack its enemies."
—William Allen White
"The Reign of Terror is the supreme expression of the revolutionary will, and the most glorious page in our history."
—Louis-Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."
—George Bernard Shaw
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is barbarity."
1864
"Don't change horses midstream!"
"For Lincoln and Liberty"
"Although he may be poor, not a man shall be a slave"
—Battle Cry Of Freedom
"WE BRING THE JUBILEE"
—Marching Through Georgia
"Sherman should have finished the job"
"Give 'em hell, Uncle Billy!"
"SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH"
"Four score and seven years ago..."
—The Gettysburg Address
"As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free"
"His Truth Is Marching On"
"John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave"
"GIT IN HIS HOLY NAME!"
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"
—General John Sedgwick
"Making Georgia Howl Since 1861"
"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it"
"Talk is a national institution, but it does not help the slave."
—John Brown
1948 Red
"Scare the hell out of the American people."
—Arthur H. Vandenberg
"Wars are won in the mind before they can be won on the field."
—Christopher Morley
1952 Red
"The Wisconsin Senator has started a fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."
—Sen. Fulbright
"Stassen again!"
"McMath runs but stands for nothing."
—Sen. Taylor
1956 Red
"McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled."
"At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
—Joe Welsh
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
"There will be no interruptions, unless I think it's of importance."
"Roy Cohn is here speaking for Roy Cohn."
—Roy Cohn
"Your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself."
—Bertrand Russell
"The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out."
—Vyecheslav Molotov
"Politics is theater, but it's more than that. It concerns the future of all our citizens."
—John McCormack
1963 Korea
"Let there be no more unfortunate soldiers like myself in this country."
—Park Chung-hee
"Let's wipe out McCarthyism believers in our society!"
—Park Chung-hee
"The establishment of a self-reliant, independent Korea is all I want."
—Park Chung-hee
"The time has come!"
—Yun Po-sun
"I am the de facto spiritual president."
—Yun Po-sun
"From now on, it is truly the government of the people, rather than for the people."
—Yun Po-sun
1971 Korea
"We have been born into this land, charged with the historic mission of regenerating the nation."
—Park Chung-hee
"We Koreans were like frogs in a well."
—Park Chung-hee
"I will never ask you to vote for me again!"
—Park Chung-hee
"Life is beautiful, and history develops."
—Kim Dae-jung
"I have lived, and continue to live, in the belief that God is always with me."
—Kim Dae-jung
"Democracy and the market economy are two sides of a coin or two wheels of a cart."
—Kim Dae-jung
1996 - Mouths of the South
"Lead, follow or get out of the way."
—Ted Turner (displayed after picking Herb Kohl as VP)
I'm just a socialist at heart."
—Ted Turner (displayed after picking Jesse Jackson as VP)
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise."
—Ted Turner (displayed after picking John Kerry as VP)
"You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win."
—Ted Turner
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
—Al Gore (displayed after Turner drops out early in the primary)
"Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life."
—Bob Casey (displayed after Turner loses the nomination to Casey)
"You're going to hear a giant sucking sound of jobs being pulled out of this country."
—Ross Perot (displayed after Turner drops out as the Reform nominee)
"If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused."
—Walter Mondale (displayed after Turner drops out as the Democratic nominee)
1996 - The End Of History
"It is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history."
—Francis Fukuyama
"My body is such that I remain sane even after drinking all my buddies under the table."
—Gennady Yanayev (displayed when playing as Yanayev)
2016 4-Way Redux
"If I could not go to heaven but with a political party, I would decline to go."
"The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails!"
"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them"
—Julius Nyerere
"Have you seen his hands?"
—Marco Rubio
"These are people that are going to be explaining for a long time how they fell into this."
"President Barack Obama trusted me and my judgement enough when he asked me to be Secretary of State."
"I don't consider myself a pariah."
"I worry about demagoguery. It's real. You see the people standing up there and applauding."
—Bernie Sanders
"Don't underestimate me."
—Bernie Sanders
"This little guy has lied so much about my record."
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it."
—Lindsey Graham
"He knows the country is ripped off. And I know the country is being ripped off."
—Donald Trump
"It's very hard for a very successful person to run for political office."
—Donald Trump
"The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy."
—Donald Trump
"Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing"
—Marco Rubio
"If I do win, and I'm leading by quite a bit, I can totally make that pledge, to not run as an independent, if I'm the nominee."
—Donald Trump
"I'm with her."
"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician."
—Hillary Clinton
