History Quotes / IDidWhatIHadToDo

-->-- '''RonaldReagan''' addresses the UnitedNations following the 1986 air strikes against MuammarGaddafi

->"I don't give a ''damn'' about your ''committee'' and its ''opinions'' on my work! Have you forgotten, sir, that we were at ''war?'' A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our ''species?'' I feel I must remind you, that it is an ''undeniable'' and may I say a ''fundamental'' quality of man that when faced with extinction, ''every'' alternative is preferable!"

->Your Blood War can be summed up with the two most evil phrases my people know. Your foes, the demons, have the phrase, '[[ForTheEvulz Because I can]]' on their side. You devils however have 'Because I had to' on yours. These two phrases, when distilled down to their essence, account for all suffering, and in the end, the latter is more destructive. The truest evil is not achieved by [[CardCarryingVillain the men who think themselves the villain]]. The truest evil is done by [[KnightTemplar the good man]] who does what he feels he must, and thus he does it without hesitation.

->'''The Operative:''' I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there... any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done.

-->-- '''In Extermis Exterminatus''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->Victory is commemorated. Failure merely remembered.
-->-- Imperial Proverb, ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->"War is cruelty. The crueler it is, the sooner it's over."
-->-- '''Warmaster Horus''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''RonaldReagan'''

->Regrets, I've had a few/But then again, too few to mention/IDidWhatIHadToDo/I saw it through, without exemption.
-->-- '''FrankSinatra''', ''My Way''

->We Anti-Spirals were once a Spiral race like yourselves. But when we learned that the evolution of Spiral Power would lead to the destruction of the universe, we annihilated all those who possessed the power of the Spiral, and drove the few surviving life forms to the far corners of the universe. We halted our own evolution and locked ourselves away into this pocket universe! On our homeworld we sealed away our bodies and any hope of evolution! ''[Anti-Spiral shows Team Dai-Gurren a dark planet that resembles Earth, with lifeless bodies similar to Anti-Spiral's lining the entire landmass]''
-> This form is the symbol of our determination! Foolish creatures, drunk on Spiral Power! We defended the universe by killing our fellow spirals and halting our own evolution! Do you possess the sheer fortitude that is on par with that?! DO YOU?! '''WE SAY NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! ''NOT! AT! ALL!!!'''''

-->-- '''Clark W. Griswold''', ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation''

->''One final note: The Foundation does many distasteful things in the completion of our mission, but our mission is important enough that the price is one we must pay. Containment of SCP-231 is one of our most dangerous duties, not because of any direct danger to ourselves (like [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]]) but because of the danger that our resolve will fail, that we will allow ourselves to either let down our guard [[NeverHurtAnInnocent due to sympathy for the suffering of an innocent]], or that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters we will allow ourselves to become monsters through the performance of monstrous acts]]. Just do your jobs, and save the philosophizing for the shrink.''
-->-- '''O5-[[spoiler:__]]''', Wiki/SCPFoundation [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 On SCP-231]]

->They were so close their stench filled the air... you can SMELL them, I tell you! Somewhere between the spice of vanilla and the bitter sweetness of pustulent rot. These creatures inhabit the bodies of men and women, exorcising the human soul and replacing it with their own putrid spirits. But they couldn't fool me! No, not at all... I could SMELL them, you see! They were all around me... dear god, all around... I knew what I had to do, they had to go, by blade and bullet I had to get rid of them! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! Dear god, I had to do it... ''had to''... [[YouHaveToBelieveMe You believe me, don't you? Don't you?]]
-->-- '''Maximillian Roivas''', Ulyaoth Bonethief Autopsy, ''EternalDarkness''

-->-- '''Townes Van Zandt''', Pancho and Lefty

->''If you want to investigate and prosecute me for striking Abu Haggani, a man who is responsible for murdering over one hundred U.S. service personnel…a man who specializes in attacking grade schools filled with children…a man whose contribution to terrorism is that he was the first to recruit mentally retarded people to become suicide bombers…If that is the case you would like to put before the American people, then I welcome it. I am more than willing to publicly stand behind my position.''

->''What I did, I did without choice... in the name of peace and sanity.''

->''Everything we did, we did for the right reasons. I understand it’s ugly, without the context.''
-->--'''[[TheCape Alexandria]]''' justifying her involvement in crimes against humanity, ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

-->-- '''Veronica Franco''', at her trial by the [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Inquisition]], in ''Dangerous Beauty''.

-->-- '''Mordin Solus''', ''MassEffect2''

->One final note: The Foundation does many distasteful things in the completion of our mission, but our mission is important enough that the price is one we must pay. Containment of SCP-231 is one of our most dangerous duties, not because of any direct danger to ourselves (like [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]]) but because of the danger that our resolve will fail, that we will allow ourselves to either let down our guard [[NeverHurtAnInnocent due to sympathy for the suffering of an innocent]], or that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters we will allow ourselves to become monsters through the performance of monstrous acts]]. Just do your jobs, and save the philosophizing for the shrink.''

->"War is cruelty. The crueler it is, the sooner its over."

->'''Jack Bauer:''' Ibrahim Haddad had targeted a bus carrying 45 people, 10 of which were children. The truth, Senator, is that I stopped that attack from happening.

->'''Blaine Mayer:''' ...even if it means breaking the law.
->'''Jack Bauer:''' For a combat soldier, the difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy. The people that I deal with, they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result. My job is to stop them from completing their objective, at all costs. I simply adapted. In answer to your question, 'Am I above the law?', no sir. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please sir, do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.

-->-- '''In Extermis Exterminatus''', ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- Imperial Proverb, ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- '''Lars''', ''FanFic/TheOpenDoor''

->Victory is commemorated. Failure merely remembered.

->Regrets, I've had a few/But then again, too few to mention/{{I did what I had to do}}/I saw it through, without exemption.

->We Anti-Spirals were once a Spiral race like yourselves. But when we learned that the evolution of Spiral Power would lead to the destruction of the universe, we annihilated all those who possessed the power of the Spiral, and drove the few surviving life forms to the far corners of the universe. We halted our own evolution and locked ourselves away into this pocket universe! On our homeworld we sealed away our bodies and any hope of evolution! ''[Anti-Spiral shows Team Dai-Gurren a dark planet that resembles Earth, with lifeless bodies similar to Anti-Spiral's lining the entire landmass]''

->'''Jack Bauer:''' For a combat soldier, the difference between success and failure is your ability to adapt to your enemy. The people that I deal with, they don't care about your rules. All they care about is a result. My job is to stop them from completing their objective, at all costs. I simply adapted. In answer to your question, 'Am I above the law?', no sir. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please sir, do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.
-->-- ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'', "Day 7: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM"

-->-- '''Mordin Solus''', ''MassEffect 2''

-->-- '''O5-[[spoiler:__]]''', WebOriginal/SCPFoundation [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 On SCP-231]]

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-->-- '''O5-[[spoiler:__]]''', SCPFoundation [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 On SCP-231]]

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->The only thing needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
-->-- '''Edmund Burke''' on why you do what you have to do

->You devils however have "Because I had to" on yours. These two phrases, when distilled down to their essence, account for all suffering, and in the end, the latter is more destructive. The truest evil is not achieved by [[CardCarryingVillain the men who think themselves the villain]]. The truest evil is done by [[KnightTemplar the good man]] who does what he feels he must, and thus he does it without hesitation.

->''"I don't give a ''damn'' about your ''committee'' and its ''opinions'' on my work! Have you forgotten, sir, that we were at ''war?'' A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our ''species?'' I feel I must remind you, that it is an ''undeniable'' and may I say a ''fundamental'' quality of man that when faced with extinction, ''every'' alternative is preferable!"''

-> This form is the symbol of our determination! Foolish creatures, drunk on Spiral Power! We defended the universe by killing our fellow spirals and halting our own evolution! Do you possess the sheer fortitude that is on par with that?! DO YOU?! '''WE SAY, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NOT! AT! ALL!!!'''

-> “.... You devils however have ‘Because I had to’ on yours. These two phrases, when distilled down to their essence, account for all suffering, and in the end, the latter is more destructive. The truest evil is not achieved by [[CardCarryingVillain the men who think themselves the villain]]. The truest evil is done by [[KnightTemplar the good man]] who does what he feels he must, and thus he does it without hesitation.�

->-- ''[[{{Firefly}} Serenity]]''

-> Some may question your right to destroy ten billion people. Those who understand realize that you have no right to let them live...
->-- ''In Extermis Exterminatus'', '''{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

-> Victory is commemorated. Failure merely remembered.
-->-- ''Imperial Proverb'', '''{{Warhammer 40000}}'''

-->--'''RonaldReagan'''

-> Regrets, I've had a few…But then again, too few to mention…Main/IDidWhatIHadToDo…I saw it through, without exemption.
-->--'''FrankSinatra''', ''My Way''

-> The only thing needed for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
-->--'''Edmund Burke''' on why you do what you have to do

-> We Anti-Spirals were once a Spiral race like yourselves. But when we learned that the evolution of Spiral Power would lead to the destruction of the universe, we annihilated all those who possessed the power of the Spiral, and drove the few surviving life forms to the far corners of the universe. We halted our own evolution and locked ourselves away into this pocket universe! On our homeworld we sealed away our bodies and any hope of evolution! ''[Anti-Spiral shows Team Dai-Gurren a dark planet that resembles Earth, with lifeless bodies similar to Anti-Spiral's lining the entire landmass]''

->-- ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'', "Day 7: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM"

->''"I didn't go berserk. I simply solved a problem."''
-->--'''Clark W. Griswold''', ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation''

->''One final note: The Foundation does many distasteful things in the completion of our mission, but our mission is important enough that the price is one we must pay. Containment of SCP-231 is one of our most dangerous duties, not because of any direct danger to ourselves (like [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]]) but because of the danger that our resolve will fail, that we will allow ourselves to either let down our guard [[NeverHurtAnInnocent due to sympathy for the suffering of an innocent]], or that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters we will allow ourselves to become monsters through the performance of monstrous acts]]. Just do your jobs, and save the philosophizing for the shrink.''
-->'''O5-[[spoiler:__]]''', SCPFoundation [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 On SCP-231]]

-> They were so close their stench filled the air... you can SMELL them, I tell you! Somewhere between the spice of vanilla and the bitter sweetness of pustulent rot. These creatures inhabit the bodies of men and women, exorcising the human soul and replacing it with their own putrid spirits. But they couldn't fool me! No, not at all... I could SMELL them, you see! They were all around me... dear god, all around... I knew what I had to do, they had to go, by blade and bullet I had to get rid of them! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?! Dear god, I had to do it... ''had to''... [[YouHaveToBelieveMe You believe me, don't you? Don't you?]]
--> Maximillian Roivas, Ulyaoth Bonethief Autopsy, ''EternalDarkness''

-> “.... You devils however have ‘Because I had to’ on yours. These two phrases, when distilled down to their essence, account for all suffering, and in the end, the latter is more destructive. The truest evil is not achieved by [[CardCarryingVillain the men who think themselves the villain]]. The truest evil is done by [[KnightTemplar the good man]] who does what he feels he must, and thus he does it without hesitation.”

-->'''O5-[[spoiler:__]]''', [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 On SCP-231]]

->''One final note: The Foundation does many distasteful things in the completion of our mission, but our mission is important enough that the price is one we must pay. Containment of SCP-231 is one of our most dangerous duties, not because of any direct danger to ourselves (like [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]]) but because of the danger that our resolve will fail, that we will allow ourselves to either let down our guard[[NeverHurtAnInnocent due to sympathy for the suffering of an innocent]], or that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters we will allow ourselves to become monsters through the performance of monstrous acts]]. Just do your jobs, and save the philosophizing for the shrink.''

->''One final note: The Foundation does many distasteful things in the completion of our mission, but our mission is important enough that the price is one we must pay. Containment of SCP-231 is one of our most dangerous duties, not because of any direct danger to ourselves (like [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682) but because of the danger that our resolve will fail, that we will allow ourselves to either let down our guard[[NeverHurtAnInnocent due to sympathy for the suffering of an innocent]], or that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters we will allow ourselves to become monsters through the performance of monstrous acts]]. Just do your jobs, and save the philosophizing for the shrink.''