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All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.
— Éamon de Valera, 1929
We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.
— Francisco Franco, 1938
I have never given up Germany – the other Germany. The day will come when the hatred that seems unavoidable in war will be overcome. One day the Europe in which Europeans can live must become a reality.
— Willy Brandt, 1943
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
— Harold Macmillan, 1960
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
— Margaret Chase Smith, 1972
History moves in contradictions.
— Nikolai Bukharin, 1917
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
— John F. Kennedy, 1963
It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?
— Henning von Tresckow, 1971
The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can now be abolished. How long shall we ignore this underdeveloped nation in our midst? How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long?
— Michael Harrington, 1962
In the working class are men for every job. The working class, given the urge and the enthusiasm, and shown the direction, can storm the world.
— Bill Alexander, 1940
The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1979
As I have said time and again, the focal point of our economy should be the individual.
— Ludwig Erhard, 1963
For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise.
— Heinrich Himmler, 1942
A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat... We can't opt out of the future.
— Seán Lemass, 1965
Democracy is not a state, democracy is a process.
— Helmut Schmidt, 1969
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
— Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
— Oliver Tambo, 1964
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
— Harold Wilson, 1967
The future isn't written, because only the people can write it.
— Adolfo Suárez, 1969
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
— Benito Mussolini, 1928
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir, 1975
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
— Golda Meir, 1974
Germany will on her side never break the peace. Germany wishes to be on an honorable footing with the neighbor peoples.
— Adolf Hitler, 1935
We will not be led like sheep to slaughter. True we are weak and helpless, but the only response to the murders is revolt. Brethren, it is better to die fighting like free men than to live at the mercy of the murderers. Arise, Arise with last breath.
— Abba Kovner, 1942
I speak simply as a soldier of the Last War whose most earnest prayer it is that such cruel and destructive madness shall never again overtake mankind. There is no land whose people want war.
— Edward VIII Windsor, 1939
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation.
— Adolf Hitler, 1939
We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.
— Adolf Hitler, 1935
A thousand years will pass and the pride of Germany will not be erased!
— Hans Frank, 1945
I will fight so that the old concept that made our country glorious is restored: To public life you go to serve, not to receive honors nor, even less, benefits.
— Jorge Alessandri, 1961
Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.
— Adolf Hitler, 1922
For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
— Reginald Maudling, 1963
No one starts a war - or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so - without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.
— Carl von Clausewitz in On War, 1832
I have sometimes had the feeling: I am more the owner of a repair shop than of a large company.
— Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 1968
I am responsible only to God and to history.
— Francisco Franco, 1937
Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise it is of no interest to me.
— Heinrich Himmler, 1943
Fascism is intellectual slavery.
— Willy Brandt, 1933
Come home, America.
— George McGovern, 1972
War is no longer the ultima ratio but rather the ultima irratio.
— Willy Brandt, 1971
Everything indicates that the fascist dictatorship is not a question of weeks and months, but of years.
— Willy Brandt, 1933
Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
— Yasser Arafat, 1963
A man without a vote is a man without protection.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965
SS men must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and nobody else. What happens to a Frenchman and a Belgian does not interest me in the least.
— Heinrich Himmler, 1959
Eretz Yisrael, not by virtue of power, but by virtue of right.
— Menachem Begin, 1950
We believe in the freedom of the democratic way of life. If we serve that idea faithfully with tenacity of purpose, we have nothing to fear from German Fascism.
— Margaret Thatcher, 1965
Ever since God created man and man created Satan, no acts of such cruelty have been committed against Jews like those by the Germans during the days of the Nazi regime.
— Menachem Begin, 1977
To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
— Adolf Eichmann, 1960
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— Barry Goldwater, 1964
If the Germans attack, we will defend. If they do not attack until winter comes, then we will and will tear them to shreds!
— Georgy Zhukov, 1967
Something remains in us from the homeland such that it lives in us all our life, now gladdening, sometimes tormenting, and it always seems that we will someday see it, our homeland.
— Vasily Shukshin, 1958
Should there be a revolution, only God knows where it will end. I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!
— Mikhail Tukhachevsky, 1917
'Führer, my Führer given me by God. Protect and preserve my life for long. You rescued Germany from its deepest need. I thank you for my daily bread. Stay for a long time with me, leave me not. Führer, my Führer, my faith, my light. Hail my Führer.'
— Hitler Youth Prayer, 1933
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Definitely, decisively, the Nation, for us... and even for them.
— António de Oliveira Salazar, 1935
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
— Winston Churchill, 1939
Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.
— John F. Kennedy, 1963
The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind.
— The Tale of the Heike
I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
— Malcolm X, 1964
We all want to put the brakes on the arms race, we all want to achieve arms control, but to those who say we must take risks for peace by cutting the meat from our military muscle, I say you are unwittingly risking war.
— Henry "Scoop" Jackson
Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood. Young men without legs, or arms, or genitals, or faces or hopes.
— George McGovern, 1970
Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.
— Joseph Goebbels, 1932
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
— John Diefenbaker, 1958
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
It is now time for our soldiers to issue their own justice.
— Alexander Vasilevsky, 1960
And Lenin is young once again, and the young October is ahead!
— Buryat Commune Chant, 1962
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of Italy, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
— King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
Democracy is finished in England. It may be here.
— Joseph Kennedy Sr., 1940
I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.
— Margaret Chase Smith, 1950
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world.
— Lester B. Pearson, 1957
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
— Curtis LeMay, 1962
The end of hope is the beginning of death.
— Charles de Gaulle, 1945
A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means. It would be a means of universal suicide.
— Andrei Sakharov, 1968
Man and fascism cannot co-exist.
— Vasily Grossman, 1960
Soratniki! The Russian National Revolution has started! There is no turning back. Russia will either perish or be ours!
— Konstantin Rodzaevsky, 1941
A Motherland without freedom for me is not a Motherland, but freedom without a Motherland, although it is very difficult to bear, still remains freedom for me.
— Roman Gul, 1952
For me the most important thing in my life was my service to my country, to my own people. And I can say with a clear conscience that I did everything I possibly could to do my duty.
— Georgy Zhukov, 1969
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
— Enoch Powell, 1967
Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny... We are like mariners without a pilot.
— Phillipe Petain, 1936
From England in the west to Moscow in the east, a curtain of darkness has fallen over Europe.
— Winston Churchill, 1944
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
— Margaret Thatcher, 1965
The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.
— Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, 1968
A real Breton does not have the right to die for France.
— Olier Mordrel, 1940
I lost many things from the waste they fed us in the camps - muscles, fat, teeth. But not my convictions. I am a soldier and I remain certain of my duty.
— Dmitry Karbyshev, 1960
There is a deep difference between patriotism and nationalism. The first is love for your own country. The second is hatred for all the others.
— Dmitry Likhachyov, 1962
The curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.
— Heinrich Himmler, 1961
We are done shining up the shoes of the Germans!
— Italo Balbo, 1951
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1969
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.
— John Paul II, 1981
Give me your blood, and I will give you freedom!
— Subhas Chandra Bose, 1944
I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
— Queen Elizabeth II, 1947
People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
— Hermann Göring, 1956
Know, comrades, that on the banner which you will carry in your victorious march to communism there is a drop of my blood.
— Nikolai Bukharin, 1940
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1970
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
— Hermann Göring, 1942
A new large-scale war will end with the destruction of human culture and civilization. Our reforms must contribute toward preventing such degenerate wars in the future, and establishing rules whereby human beings can coexist.
— Albert Speer, 1961
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much.
— Reinhard Heydrich, 1941
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy.
— Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957
Above all, authority can, indeed must, be analyzed.
— Edward Said, 1978
The truth is that the war helped. The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. Much sorrow, many tears. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.
— Dmitri Shostakovich, 1979
Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one German left alive, we win!
— Thomas Power, 1962
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history.
— Benito Mussolini, 1940
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
— Benito Mussolini, 1943
One day the world will hold the Wehrmacht responsible for these methods since these things are taking place under its nose.
— Wilhelm Canaris, 1939
My loyalty is to Scotland and her people.
— Robert Mcintyre, 1944
Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.
— Jawaharlal Nehru, 1939
In 1964, it's the ballot or the bullet.
— Malcolm X, 1964
When reflecting upon it today, the Pearl Harbor attack succeeding in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven.
— Hideki Tōjō, 1947
Oppression is the essence of power.
— Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 1961
The German brutality and rapaciousness have alienated to the Germans all the sympathies they enjoyed. Everywhere the German appears, he elicits hatred. Politically German domination was a disaster.
— Luca Pietromarchi, 1942
All this is a great diabolic scheme to dismember France. Already the North is gone, and soon the Italians will want Algiers...As for those who are against us, I need only say: let them go back to Jerusalem. We'll even be glad to pay their way.
— Pierre Poujade, 1956
He had never seen a "Fallout," and he hoped he'd never see one.
— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1959
The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!
— Konstantin Rokossovsky, 1945
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
— Lester B. Pearson, 1957
In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics.
— Henry "Scoop" Jackson, 1968
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.
— Andrei Zhdanov, 1941
Remember Pearl Harbor — keep 'em dying.
— Marine Saying
No task is more urgent than that of preserving peace. Without peace our independence means little. The rehabilitation and upbuilding of our countries will have little meaning.
— Sukarno, 1955
They say I am a power gabber. But knowledge is power, and I am giving them knowledge, so they will have more power. Can't they see that?
— Robert McNamara, 1971
You can never substitute emotion for reason. I still would allow a place for intuition in this process, but not emotion.
— Robert McNamara, 1971
Eternal Nature inexorably avenges the infringement of her commands.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
— John F. Kennedy, 1963
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
— Subhas Chandra Bose, 1940
The end justifies the means, as long as there is something that justifies the end.
— Leon Trotsky, 1938
Nature does not know extinction, only transformation.
— Wernher von Braun, 1962
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
— Martin Bormann, 1971
->The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.''
— James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926''
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
— Albert Speer, 1972
Hatred of the invading enemy is the most sacred and humane feeling. But it is born with such a pain of heart and torment of the soul that God forbid anyone to experience it a second time.
— Pavel Batov on the Black League, 1959
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
— Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
— William Olaf Stapledon, The Seed and the Flower, 1916
I accept calmly what is to be my infamous destiny.
— Galeazzo Ciano, 1963
As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.
— Galeazzo Ciano, 1946
Laws are silent in times of war.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, 52 BC
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
— Adolf Hitler, 1939
We fought them on the beaches, we fought them in the fields and in the streets. But we do not surrender, and one day we shall fight them again.
— Winston Churchill, 1946
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
— Boris Pasternak, 1960
To the friend, everything. To the enemy, not even justice
— Juan Domingo Perón, 1973
They are neither dead nor alive, they are desaparecidos [missing].
— Jorge Rafael Videla, 1979
May a hundred governments be lost, but may the principles be saved.
— Hipolito Yrigoyen, 1916
With democracy you heal, you eat, and you teach.
— Raúl Alfonsín, 1983
I like it when you shut up because it's like you are absent.
— Pablo Neruda
Fear not, for sooner than later the great avenues will open once more for the free man to walk again!
— Salvador Allende, 1973
I'm Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman, but not naive.
— Augusto Pinochet, 1983
But every "descamisado" must break a bottle on their head to anyone who speaks against Perón!
— María Eva Perón
The peaceful mobilization of the people is stronger than violence.
— Raúl Alfonsín
Sometimes winning is knowing to wait.
— Getúlio Vargas
My whole life I have been a slave of the people; for the people I have been a slave of shall never be a slave to anyone else.
— Getúlio Vargas
Those who judge us for the seriousness in our faces or for the social retreat in our lives, perhaps forget that it is in solitude that the greatest concerns of men arise.
— Jorge Alessandri, 1961
The future is not what we fear, it is what we do then.
— Carlos Lacerda
Revolutions in Brazil is like marrying with the French, there is no blood.
— Carlos Lacerda
The optimist may fail, but the pessimist already begins failing.
— Juscelino Kubitschek, 1956
If I do ten percent of what I've planned, I will leave this government with a smile on my face.
— João Goulart, 1964
I may steal, but I deliver.
— Adhemar de Barros, 1960
Perón is a God for all of us.
— María Eva Perón
Ideas are not men, but they fight like men.
— Tancredo Neves, 1985
I prefer the smell of my horse over the stench of the people.
— João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, 1982
We follow a line of conduct. It's a shame that line of conduct ended up in dictatorship.
— Juan María Bordaberry
I am convinced that sooner than can be thought, against the Rule of Law that exists in Chile, once more will the Rule of Force arise.
— Roberto Viaux, 1973
For whenever disgrace strikes your life, whichever path you may pick, you will arrive at your destiny.
— The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities
Liberty, Sancho, is one of the most beautiful gifts the heavens have given to men; with it, one can and must adventure life.
— The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Being young and not being a revolutionary is even a biological contradiction.
— Salvador Allende
The people must defend themselves, but not sacrifice themselves. The people must not allow themselves to be devastated or riddled, but neither must they humble themselves.
— Salvador Allende, 1973
If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.
— Omar Torrijos
It's not that the people are never wrong, but the people are the only ones who have the right to be wrong.
— José Batlle y Ordóñez, 1904
The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.
— René Guénon, 1945
There is something worse than communism, that is, anticommunism.
— Eduardo Frei Montalva, 1964
I feel happy every single night when I watch the news. Because, on it, the world is on fire but Brazil is at peace.
— Emílio Garrastazu Médici, 1970
As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country may again be secure.
— Jorge Rafael Videla, 1976
If the dead don't complain, there's a reason they're dead.
— Alfredo Zitarrosa, 1976
I have to confess Dad, at that moment I discovered I really like to kill.
— Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 1959
Don't forget that in the history of the world there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.
— Augusto Pinochet, 1989
You have to be careful who you pick as your enemies because you end up resembling them.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
— Augusto Pinochet, 1983
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does too.
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1911
Because we have nothing, we'll do everything.
— Carlos Dittborn, 1956
All the history of Peru of yesterday and today, and tomorrow's prophecy: The people did it.
— Fernando Belaúnde, Apurimac, 1956
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
— Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 1967
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, you are only going to kill a man.
— Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 1967
I know the Haitian people because I am the Haitian people.
— François Duvalier, 1964
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
— Simón Bolivar, 1829
Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
— Miguel Serrano, 1965
You will all wind up shining the shoes of the Germans!
— Italo Balbo
I think that, to finally achieve the socialist fatherland, we'll have to kill no less than one million people.
— Mario Roberto Santucho, 1965
Look, in Argentina one third are radicals; one third conservatives, and about one fifth are socialists... Half of them love me, and half of them hate me. Ergo, all of them are Peronists!
— Juan Domingo Perón, 1972
This is not the first coup, and it will not be the last.
— Benjamín Menéndez, 1951
Neither Victors, nor Vanquished. Argentines.
— Eduardo Lonardi, 1955
The four horsemen of Argentine decline are Conservative fraud, Peronist greed, Military arrogance, and Radical governments.
— Emilio Hardoy, 1991
Those Chileans better stop fucking around or tomorrow I shall be eating breakfast in Santiago.
— Juan Velasco Alvarado, 1975
If we're allowed to attack those «chilotes», then the brindis of New Year's will be in La Moneda Palace and then we'll go piss the champagne in the Pacific.
— Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, 1978
The worst mistake of my government?... Accepting it.
— Arturo Frondizi, 1972
Lads, the fight is unequal, have spirit and courage. Never before has our flag been lowered to the enemy, nor will this be the first. To board!
— Arturo Prat's last words, 1879
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy something is usually last year.
— Marty Allen, 1955
The system does not punish its men: it rewards them. It does not imprison its executioners: it keeps them.
— Rodolfo Walsh, 1957
The Empire does not need slaves: it needs citizens and soldiers! How can we fight the wars that are to come, if we are too busy checking that our own people does not rise against us?
— Ettore Muti, 1966
Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down.
— Henning von Tresckow, 1938
By God and Fascism, we will make Italy whole.
— Niccolò Giani, 1965
For how long have we fought the Germans? We haven't fought so hard and so long for nothing, have we?
— Yuriy Horlis, 1963
I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.
— Hafez al-Assad, 1967
The Empire will be brought together, kept together by ropes of concrete, and chains of steel. When the Imperial Connection is completed, there will be no longer any doubt that the Empire is Italian, now and forever.
— Italo Balbo, 1966
Buy when there's blood in the streets.
— Baron Rothschild, 1871
Only God, the Exalted, is the light; everything else is darkness.
— Velayat-e faqih, Khomeini, 1970
Anarchy is not a political ideology. It is a state of being, one that cannot be allowed to exist on this world. Anarchy will be expunged with utmost prejudice, wherever it might hide, and replaced by Order.
— Alessandro Pavolini, 1965
I don't want to be the joke of the world, and I don't want to be thought of as another Hitler swallowing up people.
— Abd al-Karim Qasim, 1961
Let them kill me; it does not concern me so long as I have instilled pride, honor, and freedom in you. If Gamal Abdel Nasser should die, each of you shall be Gamal Abdel Nasser.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1972
Dictatorship shall fall, democracy shall prosper.
— Khrong Chandawong's last words, 1961
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.
— Richard Nixon, 1962
Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.
— Richard Nixon, 1985
We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
— Adolf Hitler, 1941
What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
— Richard Nixon, 1985
We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.
— Josip Broz Tito, 1959
You are from Britain. Would you accept to give Manchester to some other people? And then reach agreement after expelling the people of Manchester from their homes, depriving them of their property, of everything? This is the question of Palestine.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1964
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
— Morita Akio, 1963
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser, 1969
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
— Antonio Gramsci, 1930
We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
— Wall Street Journal, 1969
The police should intervene in all cases were it is absolutely necessary; with prudence, yes, but with the due energy.
— Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 1968
Croatia is one of the countries in which the Jewish problem has been solved.
— Siegfried Kasche, 1944
The German Civil War is nothing but the culmination of the German race's own thirst for blood: once they run out of enemies to fight, they inevitably revert to a primal state, tearing themselves and their own country apart.
— Niccolò Giani, 1965
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
— Milton Friedman, 1980
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
— Ho Chi Minh, 1946
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
It is a temperament more than a party. There is only one way to annihilate it forever: Give the whole Republic to them: In office they will demonstrate their incompetence and commit worse excesses than those they criticized.
— Carlos Pellegrini, on the Unión Cívica Radical, 1910
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
— John Maynard Keynes, 1946
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
— Mark Twain, 1907
Our position at this time is most perilous. If we do not earnestly espouse nationalism and weld together our four hundred million people into a strong nation, there is danger of China being lost and our people being destroyed.
— Sun Yat-sen, 1924
Everything that stalls and doesn't evolve according to the needs of the time is destined to die. Stalling in politics is often fatal.
— Francisco Franco, 1959
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
— Jean Paul Sartre, 1953
By means of modern instruments of technology, millions could be made subject to the will of one individual.
— Albert Speer, 1959
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
— Barry Goldwater, 1964
It is mainly because of the unorganized state of the Chinese masses that Japan dares to bully us. When this defect is remedied, then the Japanese aggressor, like a mad bull crashing into a ring of flames, will be burned to death.
— Mao Zedong, 1938
Socialism is the coward's answer to poverty and exploitation! Only Fascism can break your chains!
— Ettore Muti, 1968
It is easier for a Nazi and a communist to agree than for two communists to work hand in hand.
— Iraqi communist saying, 1946
The intrigues of imperialism will be wrecked on the rock of Arab-Kurdish unity!
— Banner flown in Baghdad, 1959
Remember what was said to you: "Be softhearted and kind to your people; if you are harsh and cruel they will leave you. We sent you to be a mercy to all creation."
— Hussein-Ali Montazeri, 1975
If you go and tour any part of the country you will see how widespread misery, poverty, and want is in the life of the people. You will see in the shacks or near the marshes are moving skeletons.
— Abd al-Karim Qasim, 1959
Long live Arif—the Nasser of Iraq!
— Chant heard in Basra, 1958
You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.
— Richard Nixon, 1961
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr., 1965
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
— Richard Nixon, 1975
No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.
— Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
You all have cash registers for hearts.
— Tom Uren, 1984
In the election of 1960 and the world around us, the question is whether the world will exist - half slave, half free.
— John F. Kennedy, 1960
There is nothing human about a society that is welded together by force. Far from encouraging, as it should, the attainment of man's progress and perfection, it is merely an obstacle to his freedom.
— Pope John XXIII, 1962
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
— Richard Nixon, 1978
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
It is essential that discipline be maintained; to be quite blunt, one must employ the methods of dictatorship.
— Plaek Phibunsongkhram, 1936
Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
Nixon is like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.
— Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961
They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.
— Salvador Allende, 1967
There is no limit to the measure of ruin and of slaughter; day by day the earth is drenched with newly-shed blood, and is covered with the bodies of the wounded and of the slain.
— Pope Benedict XV, 1914
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
— Jan Masaryk, 1938
I was not mistaken, either about the quality of the days ahead, or about the solidness of our trade-unions, which carried on in-spite of these stupid leftists who won't shut up!
— Juan Domingo Perón, 1974
I erased myself.
— Casildo Herrera, 1976
For the sake of what is right we rebelled and challenged the tyrants. We raised up the banner of justice above the corpses of the despots. We challenged death and avenged ourselves with blood.
— Abd al-Hadi al-Fakiki, 1981
Bormann treats his own subordinates as if he is dealing with cows and oxen.
— Albert Speer, 1955
It may startle the draft dodgers, but I'm not sure any war is moral.
— Barry Morris Goldwater, 1979
...we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand.
— John Maynard Keynes, 1930
But the influence of the economist ... is an influence over laymen: politicians, journalists, civil servants and the public generally.
— Friedrich Hayek, 1974
Argentina is a relatively developed country and so it is ruled trough a Republican, Federal, and Democratic system, but only relatively.
— Tia Vicenta Magazine, 1963
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
— Adolf Eichmann, 1945
If you want to see capitalism in action, go to Guangdong.
— Milton Friedman, 1969
Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
— Richard von Weizsäcker, 1985
Liberty is not a luxury in the life of the nation, but its basis and its essence, and its meaning.
— Michel Aflaq
If the future isn't bright, at least it's colorful.
— Blixa Bargeld, 2001
What's there to do, things didn't turn out right.
— Arturo Illia to Silvano Santander upon being overthrown, 1966
A true Aryan must be wise, like Hitler; strong, like Göring; and loyal, like Himmler.
— A West Russian propaganda poster, 1960
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
— Frantz Fanon, 1963
A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
— Frantz Fanon, 1963
We must consider the removal of the Jews a contribution to European culture.
— Baldur von Schirach, 1942
God promised Abraham that He would not destroy Sodom if just ten righteous men could be found in the city, and so I hope that for our sake God will not destroy Germany.
— Henning von Tresckow, 1945
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1911
When the seed of doubt is planted, truth becomes irrelevant, and it takes but a willow branch to destroy trust built over the course of decades.
— Niccolò Giani, 1965
Because the economy is a woman, and to control it, you must beat it into submission.
— Alessandro Pavolini, paraphrasing Machiavelli, 1966
The [fascist] government can imprison, and exile and persecute an individual and individuals, but what can it do with a new generation in its entirety?
— Michel Aflaq, 1945
To take part in the African revolution it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion the revolution with the people. The songs will come by themselves.
— Sékou Touré, 1959
Mr. President, before I accept this post I must warn you I am in favor of establishing a dictatorship for the foreseeable future."
"I know, but we can leave that discussion for another day."
"I know, but we can leave that discussion for another day."
— Col. Arturo Ossorio Arana, to José María Guido, 1962
Racial doctrines are built mostly on illusions interwoven with primitive theories.
— Antoon Saadeh in Nushu' al-Umam, 1932
You are in the hands of the Gestapo. Don't imagine that we shall show you the slightest consideration.
— Heinrich 'Gestapo' Müller, 1939
Give us the future, we've had enough of your past... give us back our country to live in— to grow in... to love.
— Michael Collins, negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
— Julius Evola, 1934
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
— Paul Gauguin
You go and accomplish the simple task; I'll undertake the heavy duty.
— Wang Jingwei, 1938
Nothing is more important than independence and liberty.
— Ho Chi Minh, 1966
We buy in the United States. We want to sell in the United States. Now, if the United States does not buy from us, we have to sell to whoever buys from us. Because when we sell, we sell work.
— Luis Batlle Berres, 1955
Not only those who attack order are our enemies. The defectors and the indifferent are too.
— Jorge Pacheco Areco, 1968
And Liber Arce died one day in the streets of Montevideo, and the anguished people felt that Uruguay was changing, that it had gotten out of hand.
— Zelmar Michelini, 1971
Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and shall not be extinguished.
— Charles de Gaulle, 1940
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
— Charles de Gaulle, 1960
The demon of democracy, which threatened to destroy every true value, had to be defeated with its own weapons.
— Franz von Papen, 1933
You are mistaken. We've hired him.
— Response to a conservative who told Papen that he was placing himself in Hitler's hands by supporting him being appointed Chancellor, 1933
A superior [Cruceño] race, while being a minority, cannot be assimilated by a majority that is culturally and racially inferior [the Bolivian].
— Raúl del Pozo Cano, 1933
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
— Francis Parker Yockey, 1962
Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.
— Gus Hall, 1996
In waging decisive battle against the oil monopolies, our revolution is taking forward positions in face-to-face clashes with imperialism.
— Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, 1972
Go and tell the papers you are in control. Shamelessly claim you are the free leader. As for me—and my honor here is vast—I righteously abstain from all exploitation.
— Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri, 1948
These are the palaces of traitors and their progeny. Reserved for loyal patriots are gallows and graves.
— Muhammad Salih Bahr al-'Ulum, 1968
Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
— Park Chung-hee, 1964
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
— Friederich Nietzsche, 1886
Outside, the synagogue is burning—it is also a house of God.
— Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, after Kristallnacht, 1938
What's the point of being the greatest, most powerful nation in the world and not having an imperial role?
— Irving Kristol
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
— Phyllis Schlafly, 1972
France! France outraged! France shattered! France martyred! But France liberated!
— Charles de Gaulle, 1971
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead.
— John Maynard Keynes, 1923
Gold can be bought again, but not our independence.
— Siti Rahmah Kassim, 1957, on the eve of an anti-Japanese uprising
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
— John F. Kennedy, 1960
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
The Japanese say you cannot stand on your own two feet. Show them how you can stand!
— Lim Chin Siong, 1962
The United States cannot remain an open, democratic society if we are left alone - a garrison state in a hostile world.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1984
A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1988
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.
— Phyllis Schlafly, 1995
Prayer is not a substitute for work.
— George W. Romney, circa 1968
In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.
— Philip Hart, 1965
It is most unbearable for me to be thought of as if I were a believer in fascism.
— Hirohito, 1945
I listen to the 'voiceless voice'.
— Kishi Nobusuke, 1960
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
— Lester B. Pearson, 1963
I wonder what the future holds for this country if it must form such a close alliance with a nation like Germany or Italy.
— Hirohito, 1940
Give me a balcony and I will be president.
— José María Velasco Ibarra, 1960
In politics there are no such things as true friends and permanent foes.
— Pramarn Adireksarn
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
— Todor Zhivkov
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
— Albert Camus, 1951
It would not frighten me if I were to lose my throne. If that were to happen, I would go right to America and get a job as a mechanic.
— Boris III
My ministers are pro-German, my wife is pro-Italian, my people are pro-Russian.
— Boris III
People should bear in mind that we are today witnessing one of the greatest cataclysms that history has ever known.
— Bogdan Filov
I wish you courage, my dear. Be strong in the belief that life is wonderful. Be positive and believe that the Revolution will always win.
— Valery Sablin, 1961
The greatest thing that could happen in Queensland and the nation is when we get rid of all the media. Then we could live in peace and tranquility.
— Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 1987
Yes, that was the tragedy. We collaborated with your enemies and you collaborated with ours. But neither of us fought for them, did we?
— Anand Mohan Sahay, 1946
If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein, 1949
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1978
In short: (we must) neither (join) the brown ranks of Nazism, nor (be) one more star on the flag of any imperialism.
— Luis Alberto de Herrera, 1947
When a coup is rumoured, look to Seregni. If Seregni is not well, the people shall suffer; if Seregni is well, so is the nation.
— Óscar Gestido, 1967
I must warn you that today war and peace do not depend on small nations like Bulgaria.
— Bogdan Filov
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1980
Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.
— Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his time in Antarctica, 1935
Life is not worth living if it is lived kneeling in front of others
— Nicolae Balcescu
"How is one to speak of such things and not lose one's mind (or) beat one's fists against the wall? ...One would have to invent... a new language to say what no human being has ever said."
— Elie Weisel, 1978
Excesses do not exist in war; war is a game in which the toughest wins, and we had to win.
— Guillermo Suárez Mason, 1966
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
— Henry Kissinger, 1971
Someday the East is going to start pushing North and South and West. And the Western hemisphere is going to stand up and say you can't push any farther.
— Ernest C. Manning, 1967
You Albanians complain so much that you forget to enjoy life.
— Amedeo De Cia, 1952
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
— Wernher von Braun upon the first V-2 hitting London, 1944
The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.
— Phyllis Schlafly, 1982
Magnificent desolation.
— Edwin Aldrin, 1969
If you're saying nothing, then you're not saying much at all
— Martin Luther King Jr., 1961
The Ottawa controllers are following the directives of those who aspire to establish a world Jewish and Freemasonry government
— Réal Caouette, 1943
What matters now is no longer the practical purpose of the coup, but to prove to the world and for the records of history that the men of the resistance dared to take the decisive step.
— Henning von Tresckow, 1944
The NPP can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick, 1971
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
— Jackie Robinson, 1947
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
— Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, 1963
These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die.
— Lyndon Johnson, 1964
Now if you think it strange that mice should elect a government made up of cats, you just look at the history of Canada for the last 90 years.
— Tommy Douglas, 1935
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
— Gough Whitlam, 1989
The Key to the answers to all the questions of Life - all the blessings and curses of the World - lie not in men's hearts, but in their bones.
— Josephus
Brave and loyal followers! Long ago we resolved to serve neither the Romans nor anyone other than God Himself, who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind.
— Elazar Ben Yair
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
— Hirohito, 1942
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
(Those that over-focus on book learning) can never get away from what is written, are always busy analyzing, pointing out subtleties, perpetually splitting hairs.
— Cardinal Albino Luciani, 1976
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
— Theodor Adorno, 1950
People sometimes say: "we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest." That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people.
— John Paul I, 1978
Government shall belong to humans, not to priests or God. Mankind can rule over itself by its own laws made not by a single person but by the whole nation.
— Mehdi Bazargan, 1970
The road to Delhi is the road to freedom.
— Subhas Chandra Bose, 1946
We are no longer your macaques!
— Patrice Lumumba, 1960
The men aren't to be commemorated, they are to be remembered
— Pino Romualdi, 1972
People are not born with racial prejudices. For example, children have none. Racial questions are questions of education.
— Ahmed Sékou Touré, 1961
God is just.
— Eduardo Lonardi, 1956
The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time.
— White Rose leaflet
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the protection of individual citizens from the arbitrary will of criminal regimes of violence - these will be the bases of the New Europe.
— White Rose leaflet
Buckingham Palace does not host murderers.
— King George VI, 1947
O humanity! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes, so that you may get to know one another.
— Surat al-Hujurat, ayat 13
Bolivia is the best country to wage guerrilla warfare in the Americas.
— Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, 1960
'It is pure metaphysics to seek a common model of revolution for all countries and in every context.''
— Giorgio Amendola, 1965
Oh bury me, then rise ye up / And break your heavy chains / And water with the tyrants' blood / The freedom you have gained.
— Taras Shevchenko, "Testament"
The Revolution is so that people can live, not so that they can die!
— Lu Xun
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
— Daodejing
At end of wayward days he found a cause- / 'Twas not his Country's - Only time can tell / If that defiance of our ancient laws / Was treason or foreknowledge. He sleeps well.
— Leo Amery
Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished, and it will not be extinguished.
— Charles de Gaulle, 1940
To a dynamic, expanding, confident and above all purposive new Britain! ...The spirit of 1918 is in the air again.
— Harold Wilson, 1964
"Riots don't 'just happen—they are organized by outside agitators and armed guerrillas, by various civil rights and New Left groups saturated with Communist and pro-Communists."
— Phyllis Schlafly, 1967
Power wears out those who don't have it.
— Giulio Andreotti, 1951
Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
— Michael Foot, 1981
Better for everything to burn down instead of us capitulating to the occupiers.
— Aris Velouchiotis, 1945
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last
Balance as long as you can, and when it's no longer possible, set the world on fire!
— Józef Piłsudski, 1935
Any system favoring a small section of a community will not last. In any community the majority must shape its future
— Pridi Banomyong, 1968
I shall reiterate that we will continue to fight and scramble for power within the old and new orders in our lifetimes, and possibly in our children's.
— Plaek Phibunsongkhram, 1940
No hand of the people will rise up against me and the oligarchy will not kill me, because it knows that if it does, the country will implode.
— Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, 1947
"Today I am again dressed in a green uniform, but not in an army that fights for the defense of civilian interests and exploitation, but in an incipient revolutionary popular army,"
— Svante Grände
As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.... Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.
— Salvador Allende, 1970
Super Event epigraphs
It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation.
— Adolf Hitler, 1933 (accompanies the German Civil War)
No one starts a war — or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so — without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.
— Carl von Clausewitz (accompanies the South African War)
A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
— Machado de Assis (accompanies the South African War when playing as Brazil)
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from land but from our minds as well.
— Frantz Fanon (accompanies the African Crisis)
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
— Joseph Conrad (accompanies the End of the Reichstaat)
My guilt is that I am still here. That is my guilt.
— Franz Stangl (accompanies the African Devastation)
The men stood by the sill, calmly, and waited their turn to jump.
— A Tokyo Exchange secretary (accompanies the Yasuda Crisis)
We prefer independence with poverty to servitude with plenty!
— Sekou Toure (accompanies the Indonesian War)
You have a row of dominos set up; you knock the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower (accompanies the West African War (WAA vs. FMA vs. PALF))
Only the liquidation of neocolonialism will unite the entire continent under one government at the service of the African people.
— Osende Afana (accompanies the West African War (WAA vs. PALF))
So true it is that, in the face of great perils, salvation is only in greatness.
— Charles de Gaulle (accompanies the West African War (FMA vs. PALF))
People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser (accompanies the Oil Crisis)
At dawn it is not just the night that dies, it is man and his becoming, and the warm blood staining the pavement is a word that is just starting.
— Riccardo Mannerini, 1970 (accompanies the Piazza Fontana Bombing)
In a war there are no winners or losers: only victims.
— Michel del Castillo (accompanies the Iberian Wars)
Whether the rage of heaven or the cries of earth, the roar of the epoch is thundering now.
— Ode of the Showa Restoration, 1930 (accompanies the End of the Yokusankai (Muto coup))
The Emperor is the head of the Empire, combining in himself the rights of sovereignty, and exercises them, according to the provisions of the present Constitution.
— Article 4 of the Meiji Constitution (accompanies the End of the Yokusankai (Jushin coup))
One people will we be, - a band of brothers
No danger, no distress shall sunder us.
We will be freemen as our fathers were,
And sooner welcome death than live as slaves.
No danger, no distress shall sunder us.
We will be freemen as our fathers were,
And sooner welcome death than live as slaves.
— Friedrich Schiller, William Tell (accompanies the Slave Revolt)
Life does not forgive weakness.
— Adolf Hitler (accompanies the Second Night of the Long Knives)
Situation very serious...
Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere...
Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.
Disloyalty seems to gain the upper hand everywhere...
Reichskanzlei a heap of rubble.
— Martin Bormann, in his Final Telegram (accompanies the June of Deceit)
Mutinies are crushed in accordance with eternal and unchanging iron laws.
— Adolf Hitler (accompanies Fall Schwarz)
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old,
For the union makes us strong.
For the union makes us strong.
— A Traditional Folk Piece (accompanies the Hall Presidency)
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
— Samuel Adams (accompanies the Yockey Presidency)
I demolish my bridges behind me... then there is no choice but to move forward.
— Fridtjof Nansen (accompanies World War III)
The Chinese have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet.
— Mao Zedong (accompanies the Great Asian War (High Legitimacy))
If and when the war starts, wherever or whoever you are, all have the responsibility to protect our home and repel our enemy, all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice!
— Chiang Kai-shek (accompanies the Great Asian War (Low Legitimacy))
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
— Charles de Gaulle (accompanies the French Reconciliation)
History does not teach fatalism.
— Charles de Gaulle (accompanies the Reclamation of France)
The most terrible of all legends had come to life out of the darkness. Yet now it stood smiling in ebon majesty, and with a human child resting trustfully on either arm.
— Arthur C. Clarke (accompanies Operation Sea Lion II)
Oh, it's a melody flowing between two oceans; between Marrakesh and Bahrain in Yemen, Damascus and Jeddah, it's the same song of a most beautiful unity; unity of all arab people.
— Mohammed Abd El Wahab (accompanies Arab Unification)
Russian Reunification epigraphs
The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.
— Dmitry Shostakovich (accompanies Humanist Tomsk reuniting Russia as the Commonwealth of Russia)
I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.
— Daniil Kharms (accompanies Bastillard Tomsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Republic)
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
— Horace Mann (accompanies Modernist Tomsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Republic)
Yes, a strange, brilliant, unearthy visita indeed do you disclose, O Russia, country of mine!
— Nikolai Gogol (accompanies Decembrist Tomsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Republic)
We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.
— Georgy Zhukov (accompanies Zhukov's WRRF reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
The war can be concluded only with the coming to power of the universal dictatorship of the proletariat, since the world bourgeoisie will not permit the socialist island to live in peace.
— Mikhail Tukhachevsky (accompanies Tukhachevsky's WRRF reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Be strong in the belief that life is wonderful. Be positive and believe that the Revolution will always win.
— Valery Sablin (accompanies Sablin's libertarian Buryatia reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
My actions are guided by only one desire: to do what is in my power so that our people, a good, mighty people of our Motherland, wake up from political hibernation.
— Valery Sablin (accompanies Sablin's authoritarian Buryatia reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.
— Alexander Suvorov (accompanies Batov's Sverdlovsk reuniting Russia as the Russian People's Union)
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
— Boris Yeltsin (accompanies Yeltsin's Sverdlovsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Federative Republic)
Hatred of the invading enemy is the most sacred and humane feeling. But it is born with such a pain of heart and torment of the soul that God forbid anyone to experience it a second time.
— Pavel Batov (accompanies Yazov's Omsk reuniting Russia as the Russian National Reclaimation Government)
Russia has only two allies; the army and the navy.
— Alexander III (accompanies Nikita's Chita reuniting Russia as the Russian Empire)
However doomed a man may be, he still has the great luxury of freedom of thought that can carry him soaring over the past and the future, the single attribute that can never be taken away by tyrant or circumstance.
— Dmitry Volkogonov (accompanies Mikhail's Chita reuniting Russia as the Russian Empire)
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka (accompanies Rodzaevsky's Amur reuniting Russia as the Russian National State)
Power comes all by itself to the strong man. We will accept our freedom and our laws from the Russian patriot who leads Russia to salvation.
— Ivan Ilyin (accompanies Matkovsky's Magadan reuniting Russia as the Russian National Republic)
In these days of doubt, in these days of painful brooding over the fate of my country, thou alone art my rod and my staff, O great, mighty, true and free Russia!
— Ivan Turgenev (accompanies Petlin's Magadan reuniting Russia as the Russian National Republic)
If one holds a state based on mercenaries, he will not be secure or peaceful; for they are divided, ambitious and without discipline... they fear neither God nor are loyal to fellow man...
— Niccolò Machiavelli (accompanies WerBell's West Alaska reuniting Russia as the United States of Russia)
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
— Ezra Stiles (accompanies Vladimir's Liberal Vyatka reuniting Russia as the Russian Empire)
The Right of Nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
— Thomas Hobbes (accompanies Vladimir's Conservative Vyatka reuniting Russia as the Russian Empire)
So far as he is able, a Prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.
— Niccolò Machiavelli (accompanies Vladimir's Paternal Vyatka reuniting Russia as the Russian Empire)
In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted.
— Adolf Hitler (accompanies Vagner's Aryan Brotherhood reuniting Russia as the Russkiy Reykh)
A thunderstorm was in our air; the nature that we became dark - for we had no way.
— Friedrich Nietzsche (accompanies Velimir's Hyperborea reuniting Russia)
The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
— Alexander Kerensky (accompanies Zykov's Samara reuniting Russia as the Russian Republic)
Do not drop from your hands the arms you have received, fight with the enemies of the people. You are being expected by the tortured peoples of Russia. Liberate them!
— Andrey Vlasov (accompanies Bunyachenko's Samara reuniting Russia as the Russian Republic)
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
— Aesop (accompanies Oktan's Samara reuniting Russia as the Russian State)
A means can be justified only by it's end. But the end in turn needs to be justified.
— Leon Trotsky (accompanies Yagoda's Irkutsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
Our party, like any political party, strives for political supermacy for itself.
— Vladimir Lenin (accompanies Bessonov's Irkutsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.
— Peter the Great (accompanies Yuriy's Kemerovo reuniting Russia as the Kingdom of Rus)
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
— Catherine the Great (accompanies Lydia's Kemerovo reuniting Russia as the Kingdom of Rus)
The problem is the more difficult to solve that there are a good many individuals who are at the same time "bandits" and "Anarchists".
— Georgi Plekhanov (accompanies Security Council's Siberian Black Army reuniting Russia as the Russian Free Territory)
By the anarchist spirit, I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims for the good of all, freedom and justice for all, and solidarity and love among the people.
— Errico Malatesta (accompanies the Anarchist Soviet's Siberian Black Army reuniting Russia as the Russian Free Territory)
If the opposition disarms, all is well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
— Joseph Stalin (accompanies Kaganovich's Tyumen reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
We must finally understand that of all the precious capital in the world, the most precious capital, the most decisive capital, is human beings.
— Joseph Stalin (accompanies Khrushchev's Tyumen reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
If the present were not so horrible and grim, and the future so mysterious and enigmatic, one could go mad with joy.
— Konstantin Kavelin (accompanies Democratic Komi reuniting Russia as the Russian Free Republic)
When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.
— Svetlana Stalina (accompanies Stalina's Komi reuniting Russia as the Russian Free Republic/Russian Reconstruction Authority)
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
— Vladimir Lenin (accompanies Suslov's Komi reuniting Russia as the Russian Soviet Republic)
All our knowledge - past, present and future, is nothing compared to what we will never know.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (accompanies Zhdanov's Komi reuniting Russia as the United Soviet Federation)
Tremble, robbers! Your hour has struck. The world of oppression, slavery and tears is being replaced by the bright world of the international brotherhood of workers!
— Alexandra Kollontai (accompanies Bukharina's Komi reuniting Russia as the United Soviet Federation)
He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him.
— Jordanes (accompanies Gumilyov's Ust-Sysolsk reuniting Russia as the State of Eurasia)
So long as the moral tone is preserved, the sun of our glory will not set; there will come no national decay or death.
— Frederik William Robinson (accompanies Shafarevich's Ust-Sysolsk reuniting Russia as the Reformed State of Russia)
We are with you, but we are not yours. Do not think we have changed by acknowledging your red banner; we recognized it only because it blends with national colors.
— Nikolay Ustryalov (accompanies Serov's Ust-Sysolsk reuniting Russia as the Russian National Soviet Republic)
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus. (Latin for Let justice be done, though the world perish.)
— Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (accompanies Taboritsky's Ust-Sysolsk reuniting Russia as the Holy Russian Empire)
I work now as I have always worked: with my face into the wind... I'm only an instrument that God is using for the moment. Afterwards, things will be as God wants them.
— Alexander Men (accompanies the Father's Divine Mandate of Siberia reuniting Russia as the Divine Mandate of Russia)
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
— Philip K. Dick (accompanies Pokryshkin's Novosibirsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Federation)
Something remains in us from the homeland that it lives in us all our life, now gladdening, at times tormenting, and it always seems that we will someday see it, our homeland.
— Vasily Shukshin (accompanies Shukshin's Novosibirsk reuniting Russia as the Russian Federation)
Capitulation Messages
The caged bird cries no more.
— Vereinigte Ostlandliga
The status quo lies destroyed.
— Reichskommissariat Ostland
The sun sets on the SS.
— SS-Oberabschnitt Ostland
A pauper's crown lies shattered.
— Central European Council
The talons have been clipped.
— Generalbezirk Lettland
Seeking to make Ukraine their breadbasket, the Reich created a graveyard.
— Reichskommissariat Ukraine
No! I'm alive! I will live forever! I have in my heart what does not die!
— Republic of Ukraine
...Weightless with a year's starvation, and white with the knowledge of death...
— The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
You cannot nurture a man with pain, nor can you feed him with anger.
— Ukranian State
Order has been restored to the steppe.
— Mongolian People's Front
The Mongol nation, united.
— Menjiang
A great nation is a nation that values the service of its heroes.
— Indonesia
Kahar died as he lived: relentless, unwavering, fearless, and devoted to His word.
— The South Sulawesi Guerrilla Unit
The mountains of West Java remain, for Prabu Siliwangi weeps from Parahyangan.
— The Siliwangi Military Council
The torch of the revolution has been extinguished - maybe forever this time.
— The People's Democratic Armed Forces
The imdomitability of warlords broke, as steel and napalm burned through the highlands of Sumatra.
Hatta waves goodbye to his home one last time, his dream of a truly free Indonesia never to be realised.
— The Free Government of the Republic of Indonesia
May Allah give them providence in His Heaven.
— Islamic State of Indonesia
The Mad Dog has been put down, and Order in the Southwest reigns once more.
— National Protection Army (Long Yun's Yunnan)
As Japanese troops march through Shanghai, Beijing, and Nanjing, the hope of freedom is squashed. Japan has won the war against China, and consequently the eastern world as a whole.
— Republic of China
This is a national struggle and fight for survival where all of us proud Chinese will commit our souls and efforts to.
— Republic of China (Long Yun's Second Northern Expedition)
A shadow falls over France.
— French State
Ar chas doñv a 'yelo da ouez.Tr.
— Brittany
The Pan-African dream lies defeated.
— African National Congress
The Boer state has been ended, but the conflict has not.
— Boer Republic
The light of democracy has been extinguished in Africa.
— Union of South Africa
The airport of Africa could not stand up to the Americans in the air.
— Reichkommissariat Südwestafrika
So end Huttig's reign of terror.
— Reichkommissariat Ostafrika
The Sun rises on the Congo's crooked shores.
— Reichkommissariat Zentralafrika
Though their bravery was commendable, Bohemia has once more fallen prey to the German Reich.
— Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren
The first domino has fallen, now the rest will follow.
— Militärstaat Madagaskar
The Red Island is soaked in the blood of her people.
— Republic of Madagascar
Their redemption shall forever be out of reach.
— United Coalition Government of Madagascar
Bratislava burns, and with it, the last bastion of a brighter future. There is no hope left for the people of Slovakia.
— Slovakia
Though the men and woman of the Polish homeland fought with everything they had, Poland is lost. Perhaps this time forever.
— Poland
White and Red fly on the buildings of Warsaw once again.
— Das Generalgouvernement
I undertake to hold the position now occupied by us to the last man without regard to casualties and whether or not ammunition is available.
— Militärbezirk Russland
Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,- She shall escape, she shall aspire, She shall arise to make men free.
— Collaborator Britain
You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the passion for Irish freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win by a better deed.
— Republic of Ireland
For 800 years we've fought you without fear. And we will fight you for 800 more.
— Irish Republic
There are men in Ulster who would sooner die than bring down the flag.
— Orange State of Ulster
The West Indies' house divided could not stand.
— West Indies Federation
God in Heaven; Trujillo Six Feet Under.
— Dominican Republic
O, mia patria, sì bella e perduta!Tr.
— Governtorato del Levanto
Del Giordano le rive saluta, di Sionne le torri atterrate.Tr.
— Turkey
Those who wear the shirt of fire will realize it burns as much as it warms.
— Republic of Turkey
This earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life.
— Bormann's Germany
History will show the trials to be necessary.
— Speer's Germany
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
— Göring's Germany
The world is just a barrel-organ which the Lord God turns Himself. We all have to dance to the tune which is already on the drum.
— Heydrich's Germany
You have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.
— Schutzzone Germania (Speidel's Germania)
I leave life to enter history.
— Brazil
The sun of May descends, perhaps forever.
— Argentina
And the free people of the world replied: "And with glory, they died."
— The Argentine Republic
Another Paraguayan War, Another Paraguayan humiliation.
— Paraguay
Who will cry for the neutral?
— Uruguay
A refuge from oppression no more, the tomb of the free forevermore.
— Chile
There is a trivial truth, since there is no doubt or uncertainty in saying it, which, however, is important to always keep in mind: we are all going to die. We know that simply because we are alive.
— The Republic of Colombia
Nothing more cruel and inhuman than a war. Nothing more desirable than peace. But peace has its causes, it is an effect. The effect of respect for mutual rights.
— Columbian Revolutionary Union
The specter of homicidal violence has appeared in Colombian history whenever it was believed that the hypocritical respect for formalities could replace the obedience of moral obligations.
— New Granada
It is necessary to suffer all the heat of the sun and all the hardships of a conqueror, since our campaign is about conquering the universe.
— Second Patriotic Army
We are Bolivarians. The Supreme Father of America conscientiously judges us to the point of honoring our lips like stirrup peons kissing his boots.
— Free State of Colombia
If nature opposes us, we will fight against it and make it obey us.
— National Socialist League
Only you understand that you entangled the years to waste and the years of reflection in a single twisted intense activity. You lived the advance and the reverse at the same time.
— United Democratic Front
What is built on sand sooner or later would tumble down.
— Second Philippine Republic
I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.
— US Forces in the Philippines
They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them.
— Filipino Revolutionary Socialist Republic
Prepare two graves before you embark for vengeance.
— Firipin Gunseibu
It is the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.
— Ordenstaat Burgund
Those that plot from the shadows are likelier to return to them.
— Vlaamse Nationale Staat
You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.
— Belgian National Union
Their high came to a calamitous end.
— Nouvel État Français
Iberian Wars Capitulation Messages
What was born by the sword shall die by the sword.
— Spanish Authority
In the end the tablecloth was rent in wounds, And there did the blushing roses drop, On the caries of the worn tabletop.
— Falangist Spain
El sueño esta muerto.Tr.
— Catalan Popular Front
Catalunya siempre será libre en nuestros corazones.Tr.
— Republic of Catalonia
The tortured Union meets its end.
— Iberian Federal Government
Once more, the young defeat the old.
— Basque Republic
The flame of youth burns out.
— Asturian Workers' Battalions
Dona eis requiem.Tr.
— National Redemption Front
The pilgrim's road meets its end.
— Galician Republic
Daddah's dream is toppled.
— Trarza
The Estado Novo meets its end.
— Government of National Salvation
The carnation
withers.
withers.— Portuguese Provisional Republic
Porto finds peace once more.
— Portuguese People's Front
Morocco fades into history once more.
— Morocco
History repeats itself.
— Rif Republic
West African Crisis Capitulation Messages
That which we call Cold War and Decolonization are only the exterior signs of the painful labour, from which will be born the world of the Future, with all divisions healed.
— Wolofia
To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people, the songs will come by themselves.
— Guinea
I am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which I have lit in Ghana and Africa.
— Socialist Republic of Ghana
Make the enemy king by crowning him with love and he shall be your servant of peace.
— Republic of Ghana
After them, the deluge.
— Yorubaland
The Fulani's farce meets its end.
— Fuuta Fulbe
They would never see themselves free.
— Biafra
The memories of Kousséri weigh them again, forevermore.
— Sara Republic
Better to die as a man, than live as a serf.
— Socialist Republic of the Niger River
In unity lies strength. African states must unite or sell themselves out to imperialist and colonialist exploiters for a mess of pottage.
— Republic of Gbeland
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on an empty stomach.
— Socialist Republic of Bénin
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.
— Cameroon (Pan-African)
The Pan-African dream lies, twice shattered.
— Cameroon (Revolutionary Nationalist)
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on an empty stomach.
— Socialist Republic of Bénin
Siddiq's kingdom returns to the sands of oblivion.
— Sokoto
Brushing aside every obstacle, contemptuous of all pressures, we must proceed, stage by stage, to concrete actions, looking only to the ideals of liberation and African unity.
— Mali
Oil Crisis Capitulation Messages
The Italians were left with only themselves to fight.
— Yemen
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
— Yemen Arab Democratic Republic
I beg of you, brothers, to look upon me as both brother and servant. 'Majesty' is reserved to God alone and 'the throne' is the throne of the Heavens and Earth.
— Saudi Arabia
Yesterday it was complete darkness and with the help of God, tomorrow will be a new dawn on Muscat, Oman and its people.
— Oman
All revolutions in the Arab world are led by colonels... I am having no Arab colonels in my army.
— Imamate of Oman
What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
— Dhofar Rebellion
Soon there will be only five Kings left—the King of Italy, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.
— Egypt
I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.
— Egyptian Revolutionary Command Council
One by one the righteous fell, and the ills of ignorance permeated.
— Muslim Brotherhood
Freedom is both fire and light; should you seek the light then you must remain besides the flame.
— Republic of Sudan
They say that the Army can not speak the language of their own people, very well!
— Sudan Defense Force
The preachers, the radicals and the governors all feared us, and left us with no room.
— State of Sudan
The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, they will be rained down with bullets from everyone.
— Iraq
The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun... The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins!
— Ba'athist Iraq
Shamelessly claim you are the free leader. As for me, I righteously abstain from all exploitation.
— Iraqi Republic
Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom.
— Islamic Republic of Iraq
Death is a possibility, but never would I surrender. Death is a possibility, but never would I go to prison. Thus, there is only one possibility left - to stay in the mountains.
— Kurdistan
Oh land your soil is kafuri, in the trench my magazine sang.
— Syrian Republic
When a hero dies in the village, people cannot cry.
— Azania Liberation Front
Oh my people, oh my people, who will set you free?
— Anyanya
A crown, a throne could not be based on the not too very solid foundation of blood.
— Imperial State of Iran
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
— Democratic Republic of Iran
Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.
— Shahdom of Iran
Bury your guns; One day, for Iran, A tree will grow from the rifle.
— Iranian Socialist Republic
Death is nothing but happiness, and living under tyrants nothing but living in a hell.
— Islamic Republic of Iran
Russian Capitulation Messages
Pandora's box shall be forever closed.
— Komi
A faithful man shall abound with blessings.
— Order of Saint George
Perhaps peace never had a chance in Russia.
— Vologda
The eagle will never again cry.
— Vyatka
The doorway to Europe lies open - and with it comes the smell of war once more.
— Onega
The war machines lie broken and scattered.
— Gorky
Freedom is a thing worth dying for.
— Tartarstan
The muezzins sing no more.
— Bashkiria
There remains some justice in the Russian Anarchy.
— Aryan Brotherhood
The secrets of the mountain shall forever remain hidden from the world.
— Magnitogorsk
Alas, peace could not last on the villages of Orenburg.
— Orenburg
Part of a journey is the end.
— Ural League
The monster of the Urals has been euthanized. He will not be missed.
— Dirlewanger Brigade
The damned souls no longer guard their Hell.
— Vorkuta
She smiled sadly, as she flew into the night.
— Free Aviators
Old soldiers never die - they just fade away.
— Sverdlovsk
A nation of iron, a land of tears.
— Tyumen
They would find peace in death.
— Omsk
Not even a Falcon can fly against a storm.
— Novosibirsk
The mad king's reign is over.
— Kemerovo
The calls for tradition have been deafened by the drums of war.
— Oyrotia
Their last thoughts were of home, and the people they had loved.
— People's Revolutionary Council
Andreev's mutiny ended as it began.
— Krasnoyarsk
And onwards ran the River of Anarchy.
— Siberian Black Army
Their diamonds shine bright no more.
— Yakutia
There is no middle ground; the Russian Tsar should reign, or perish.
— Chita
Their sorrow scattered to the heartless sea.
— Kamchatka
Moskowien capitulation messages
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
— Tver Republic
Those who are late will be punished by life itself.
— Russian Democratic Council
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Notfallverwaltung Paulusburg
Rather fail with honour, than succeed with fraud.
— Operationszone Sankt Petersburg
Post-Taboritsky Capitulation Messages (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Through the graves the wind is blowing.
— North Russian Liberation Front
The Regent's abomination passes into the night.
— Holy Russian Empire
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds rest in thee.
— Christian Republic of Samara
The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history.
— Imperial Mercantile Consortium
The Pale Horse rides no more.
— Ural Purification Zone
Pressing close, our enemies bellicose, unsleeping, Aim to make us feeble if our name is scorned, if our fame is shamed, What defines us as a people?
— The Idel-Ural Free State
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
— The Revolutionary Communes of Orenburg
Poland has died for a third time, choking on its own blood.
— Autonomous Soviet Liberation Army
The Mad Dog put down.
— Kazakh Purification Army
A man cries over the loss of his wife until she is buried. A man cries over the loss of his Motherland until he is buried.
— Free Kazakh Clans
They would cry out for freedom no more.
— Nenetsian Free Army
The hand of Fate has ripped them from the sky.
— Imperial Airborne Brigades
What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
— Redeemed Black League
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
— Trans-Ural Confederation
The light of progress in Russia has gone out.
— Chelyabinsk Institute
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.
— Brotherhood of Cain
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
— Republic of New Tomsk
The new republic, built on hope, has been strangled in its cradle.
— Central Eurasian Republic
Rurik's line has been swept away, never to be seen again.
— Kingdom of Altay
They died free. There is no better end.
— Siberian Free Territory
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
— Bratsk Communal Vanguard
Alexei has passed forever beyond our grasp.
— Russian Empire
Another king joins the ghostly ranks of Russian nobility.
— Regency of Holy Russia
No good deed goes unpunished.
— Amur Refugee Zone
The rivers of wealth have been replaced with blood.
— Free Port of Magadan
No one was coming to save them.
— United Siberian Salvation Committee
SS Civil War Capitulation Messages (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
A palace will fall of its own accord.
Imitation is suicide.
— SS-Ordensstaat Lotharingen
Cowards! Failures! Traitors!
— Angriffsgruppe Steiner
If anyone is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death.
No spy, however astute, is proof against relentless interrogation.
Our concern, our duty, is to our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else.
Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?
There is no limit to the battlefield.
They were the products of total war.
Other
We who survived the war and took to wife
And sired the kids and made the decent living,
And piecemeal furnished forth the finished life
Not by grand theft so much as petty thieving—
Who had the routine middle-aged affair
And made our beds and had to lie in them
This way or that because the beds were there,
And turned our bile and choler in for phlegm—
Who saw grandparents, parents, to the vault
And wives and selves grow wrinkled, grey and fat
And children through their acne and revolt
And told the analyst about all that—
Are done with it. What is there to discuss?
There's nothing left for us to say of us
And sired the kids and made the decent living,
And piecemeal furnished forth the finished life
Not by grand theft so much as petty thieving—
Who had the routine middle-aged affair
And made our beds and had to lie in them
This way or that because the beds were there,
And turned our bile and choler in for phlegm—
Who saw grandparents, parents, to the vault
And wives and selves grow wrinkled, grey and fat
And children through their acne and revolt
And told the analyst about all that—
Are done with it. What is there to discuss?
There's nothing left for us to say of us
—Thirtieth Anniversary Report of the Class of '41, by Howard Nemerov (accompanies the "Global Conflicts" tab)
Fuck off and die you human cockroach.
— President Curtis LeMay's transition letter to Francis Parker Yockey, in its entirety.
Cut Content Super Event epigraphs
The way of the Warrior is to be found in dying.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo (accompanies Order 44)
When beggars die' there are no comets seen; The heavens themseleves blaze forth the death of princes.
— William Shakespeare (accompanies the English Catastrophe)
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (accompanies the Mars Landing)
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.
— Mohandas Gandhi (accompanies the Indian Civil War)
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
— Subhas Chandra Bose (accompanies the Indian War)
Don't beg for the right to live - take it
— Unknown Frenchman, 1968 (accompanies the Burgundian Spring)
Europe shall be dominated by Germany. Defeated states shall be nothing more than colonies.
— Benito Mussolini (accompanies Operation Gaiseric)
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
— Adolf Hitler (accompanies Fall Rot)
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.
— Yukio Mishima (accompanies Fall Dämmerung)
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;.
— Julia Ward Howe (accompanies Fall Rockwell)
Why' of course, the people don't want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along.
— Hermann Göring (accompanies 2nd German Civil War)
We lacked self control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise the Reich would have lasted more than 4 decades
— Wilhelm Frick (accompanies The German Collapse)
And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history.
— Alexander Vasilevsky (accompanies Vasilevsky's People's Revolutionary Council reuniting Russia as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Old British Reunification epigraphs
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
— Queen Victoria (accompanies Margaret Thatcher reuniting United Kingdom)
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
— Oliver Cromwell (accompanies Harold Macmillan reuniting United Kingdom)
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
— Abraham Lincoln (accompanies Reginald Maudling reuniting United Kingdom)
What do you want to be a sailer for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
— David Lloyd George (accompanies George Jellicoe reuniting United Kingdom)
Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number, shake your chains to earth like dew we are many, they are few.
Old Kazakhstan capitulation messages
Poland is lost once more.
— Nowa Polska
The Khan could not outride history.
— Kokshetau
The soldiers too will take strike action, they'll break ranks and fight no more...
— Kyzylorda
Chairman Onoprienko's experiment has ended in failure.
— Aktobe
