Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[New Edwardia]

"Captain John Sterling, ye say? Aye, I knows him; I served under him too as a bosun on the Nemesis. Ahhh, that got yer attention now, eh? Aye, the Nemesis; toughest brig to have ever sailed the oceans of the world. But it weren't always that way. When he found it, it was nothing but a wreck. Even so, he knew it were no regular ship. And if he could restore its ancient glory; if he could hunt down its missing pieces, then he could become one of the world's most powerful pirates in the world; a legend of the sea; or even a dreaded menace if that were his taste..." - Woody Underwood, former bosun who served under the Pirate Lord, Captain John Sterling, as he tells the tale of Sterling and the Nemesis to a bunch of adventure seekers on Port Royal Island, 1796

[Cumberlanda]

"One thing I've learned is to, when dealing with foreign nations, is to be cool about it. If you raise your voice and not mean it, you will merely anger them, with yourself unprepared to actually back up anything. In most situations, showing grace will be rewarded with grace, generousity rewarded with generousity. In cases where hatred is returned, calmly look to the sky and breathe in. Then, without anger, neutralize the threat. Then, pretend as if nothing happened, and offer grace. That is the way I run my affairs abroad."

-Leo Samuelsson, Chairman of the Board

[Stalenhag Sweden]

"A popular past time here in Västerort is to bet on which nation will launch their nuclear arsenal at their enemies first. Morbid, yes, but it's quite fun. I've got two-hundred krona on the Soviets." - Sven Bjernsen, teenager, Stockholm, August 1995.

[Las Palmeras]

"My maternal family dislike me for rejecting any traditionalist complementary education at home. Not that any nakōdo knows how to think- *freudian slip* I mean teach!"
-Tsuneko Zorilla

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"She never really cared for many things other than what interested her, even then she was very intuitive and passed any subject without much effort, even if barely, except maybe Math. I suppose if you asked things nicely, she was willing to help. All the other girls thought she was stuck-up and I felt they were jealous she looked all small and cute without trying. But not even many teachers were sympathetic, she always seemed aloof and I don't know if her awkwardness was conceitedness. "
-A former peer and coworker of Tsuneko

[The Grand World Order]

"We put Guy Fawkes masks on all of our Ivan targets, here. They're great targets in real scenarios, too." -Chief Warrant Officer Mike DuPont, Range Gunner at Delta Range, part of Area 88-Empire, one of the GWO's world-renowned special operations training bases, which trains special operators from GWO-aligned countries all around the world

[Misthurst]

"We put Guy Fawkes masks on all of our Ivan targets, here. They're great targets in real scenarios, too." -Chief Warrant Officer Mike DuPont, Range Gunner at Delta Range, part of Area 88-Empire, one of the GWO's world-renowned special operations training bases, which trains special operators from GWO-aligned countries all around the world

"They do indeed, Michael, which is why we encourage our operators not to wear or carry any distinctive identifying marks. Our anonymity is our strength."

~ Him, an online presence.

[Auzkhia]

"Could be worse, I could be teaching home economics at a girl's school in Heidelberg, the humiliation would be unbearable!"
-Heinrich Erdély

[Bereia]

"It is perhaps worth noting that Guy Fawkes was no anarchist. He was an English Catholic who fought as a mercenary for the Spanish against the Protestant Dutch, and became involved in a plot to kill King James I while seeking aid for a Catholic uprising in his homeland. If anything, his goal of strict Catholic rule in England makes him the exact opposite of an anarchist."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Sovetskaya Rossiya]

"I would say that the party and it's line has indeed changed over the years. Most recently, with Yegor Ligachev and what his opponents call 're-stalinisation', when in reality his reforms and his works rejected many aspects of the Stalin years, such as statues or posters which depicted leaders as Ligachev himself was opposed to such personality cults. Plus, while he did reverse glasnost, perestroika, and came down hard on Eastern Europe, it is actually probably more benevolent that anything Stalin would have done."
-Pavel Ivchenko, University student and Marxism-Leninism Major

"I am going to make Stalin look like a fucking anarchist."
-Comedy skit in which Yegor Ligachev, played by himself, addressed the Supreme Soviet.

[Auzkhia]

"I'm a democratic socialist, but really, that's a bit redundant, since socialism is, by design, democratic. Call me a dirty revisionist, but the Soviet model is wrong and rejects the ballot box."
-Alex Baum

[Auroya]

"Marxism-Leninism and Maoism have killed, among other things, socialism worldwide."

--- Empress Cynia a. Iocir

[The Grand World Order]

"The truth is, only the -very- basics are learned at force-wide schools such as these. While it is challenging, we don't have particularly brutal or high-failure basic training, but it's not less effective than many of the extreme programs around the world, and certainly does better for us than the idiotic programs where recruits are known to actually die in every training cycle. The vast majority of what a soldier, Marine, sailor, airman, or Guardsman actually uses will be learned at his unit, and the effectiveness of these men and women depends heavily on them being trained together to the point where they instinctually work as a team. Every team will have its own flavor and way of doing things. Basic training is only there to establish a foundation for what that will be based on. No amount of training can beat educated experience and unit cohesion." -Marshal Tyrone T. Briggs, leader of the Federal Army

"Their land to serve, thy law fulfill." -Motto of the Federal Guard

"You can always tell submariners from other sailors in the Federal Navy. They're usually at least a little pudgy, but more importantly, they're all very soft-voiced and quiet, and their actions are usually deliberate and careful. It's drilled into them, and there have been cases where entire crews said no more than the faintest whispers for weeks at a time. This is to help prevent detection from acoustic sensors; anything from someone dropping a hammer to two sailors talking can be heard. The Imperial Ryouese Navy never seemed to understand this." -Fleet Admiral Griffin Yeats, Federal Navy

[Barboneia]

"Did you plant the charges?"

"The what?"

"The charges. You know, to level the building? The crucial tool we need to do our bloody jobs?"

"Erm... Oh, yeah! Totally! Yeah... Erm... What do they look like again?"

"...They're shaped like bricks, white, a bit squishy. They're plastic explosives. You didn't... You didn't actually plant them, did you?"

"...Er... Well... No... But, I did put bricks down, yeah?"

"That's not going to friggin' help us and you know that. Wait... If you put the bricks down, where did you put the plastic explosives? Because I already told Mark to detonate them-"

*Distant explosion*

"WHAT IN THE FUCK?! MY FUCKING CAR! WHO BLEW UP MY FUCKING CAR?!"

"Oh... Erm..."

"You idiot." - A foreman and one of his employees, Talecton, 2011.

[The Grand World Order]

"Final Solution, When All Others Have Failed" -Motto of the Federal Guard Advanced Crisis Team, the GWO's highest-level hostage rescue unit; often shortened by removing "Final Solution"

[Allancia]

"The Emperor, in popular culture, is portrayed as a valiant, impossibly strong behemoth, leading Allancia like a captain his ship. The vast hordes of unwashed laborers, human and xeno alike believe this fanciful tale. Even some of the Imperial Governors and military prefects subscribe to this legend. However, even Jove nods. That's an old saying from Terra. Jove was the kind of the gods in the old pagan cults, and it meant that even the most perfect fellow could make mistakes. The Emperor, underneath his robes and beyond his flawless conquests, is but a man. Thanks to gene manipulation, a quite attractive and sexually active man, but no different than you or I regardless. Remember that as you train, it is not he who protects the empire, it is you.
Also, as a side note, there are at least five times in our history where marshals and naval pashas descended from common folk have founded Imperial Dynasties when the last one ended or was ended. I also want you to remember that one can technically ascend from private to Grand Marshal over many years, if they qualify. I want you to remember those two things always."

-Kommandant Willard Hersh, to a group of recruits

[Sovetskaya Rossiya]

"Pandering to the capitalists and attempting to bring about socialism through reform doesn't make you a communist. It makes you a 'red' liberal."

"Every rise of Fascist dictatorship has been preceded by a regime of Liberals more concerned with high principles of abstract liberty than concrete material reality. Fascism is not defeated when vague liberal principles areally implemented. It will not go away because of free speech and liberal education. Fascism must be brutally smashed and eradicated with all of the might the workers of the world can muster."
-Vladimir Zhirinovsky

[Misthurst]

"Marine, what the fuck is going on here?"

"Checking that house, sergeant. There's a sniper in there somewhere, but he's laying low. I'm trying for a visual fix."

"Do we have anybody else in there? Friendlies? Civilians?"

"Not that I'm aware of, sergeant. Just him and the rats."

"Then fuck it. We have places to be. I'll call for a flamethrower, see how our friend likes that."

~ Sgt. Tenisha Kaiser & Pvt. Everette McIntosh, F.S.M.C., during an overseas deployment to rescue Free States Citizens.

[Phisych University]

"From the Kings of Britain to the Emperors of Rome to the Divine Rulers in Japan to the Presidents of America to the First Citizen in Athens. No state ever has, ever will, and ever should serve 'the people;' a meaningless and pointless concept in itself. To ask the state to be some form of charity work removes one of the greatest forces of change in history. And do not tell me that change is not inherently good, the point is not the goodness of change, it is the need. Human beings crave to smash some aspect of the status quo and wether a liberator or a tyrant gives it to them it matters not. To turn the state into this altruistic fantasy of immortal servant to the wretched and useless concept of 'all' thus denies human kind one of its fundamental needs. A man wishes to establish himself, a separate entity from his forebears as his forebears wish to be different from him. To kill the selfish state, the state of the tyrant and demagogue, is to starve men of this need to escape political boredom. Moreover, such an idea kills the great statesman, for he is now bound like a slave to the meek masses where the wretched entity known as 'the people,' should bend the knee to their ruler. Just look at Calvin Coolidge, every goddamn minarchist masturbates to the achievements of a man who did nothing, but in the end no voice in history is as strong as a man who fucking did something. I dare say, fucking Hitler was a better historical figure because at least we can say the world was never the same after he passed. All the most presidential president in the world did was sit around and let others make history for him. And yes, I am aware those who make change or do something have made mistakes, THAT'S THE POINT OF DOING YOU FUCKING LACKWIT! To take the reins, to right wrongs and wrong rights! Every man is a sinner and a saint, a god and a devil, wrapped into one being. Failure from doing is more fulfilling than the whimpering sloth of 'success' by inaction. It is easy for the sheep to judge and condemn these men, they never have or ever will hold the reins of power and they envy any man with the fortune or will to hold it himself. And it is they who I condemn, for they are the cowards unfit to rule and who will be forgotten in the march of history. The man who burns the world is far greater than the sack of flesh that let's it slip through his grasp. I will say it myself, I am a tyrant, and that alone elevates me above many other men in history. Indeed, the best of men are usually the tyrannical ones."

- Nicholas Phisych, Founder of Phisych University. Excerpt from Proper State Ethics

[Soradine]

"America's policy on radical Islam is roughly the same as blaming a woman for her own rape."

- Chairman Kiv

[Nayba Collective]

"The revolution will not be skelevised."
- hunter

"She's just looking to settle down, start a colony, and maybe have a few dozen children. I mean, you're at that stage of your life too, right?"
- comment between biorecycler plant employees

[Barboneia]

"Oh, god damn it. The canon got fucked up again, but this time, it's not just affecting our country, it's the entire fucking region!"

"What?"

"The canon! Now the region isn't called 'Stacheleimfleish' or whatever it was, it's Valkia now. And Mackonia doesn't exist anymore! Do you know how long it's going to take to amend our history and documents? Fuck!"

"...Right." - Two members of parliament.

[Auroya]

"America's policy on radical Islam is roughly the same as blaming a woman for her own rape."

- Chairman Kiv

"Regardless of what drives somebody to attack you, if they do, you have the right to destroy them, and so does America."

--- Sir Ploton a. Sara

[Blakullar]

"NOT A SINGLE SURVIVOR."

~ a four-letter telegram sent by an enraged Grand Curatrix Elena Trotskaya to the Mecharussian Orbital Bombardment Command, confirming orders to launch tactical nuclear strikes on rebellious Organic Ghettoes during the Nexonic Global Crusade.

[Auzkhia]

"Really, the Ottoman Empire is very, very fragile. But, its integrity is necessary for security. Turkey sits on Arabia at the crossroads of the world, the location, in hostile control, can really disrupt trade routes of Europe and Asia, and the Ottoman Empire holds a vast wealth of oil, a resource which the world would die for, oil is power. Furthermore, Ottoman rule, even if strict, keeps many nations in relative peace. The Auzkhian Empire must continue its support to the Ottoman Empire."
-Boris Hugo Freiherr von Bach, Minister of Foreign Affairs

[Xekliv]

"Ur-Xekt, forgive me for this violence I am about to inflict."

"Gol-Rochal, grant that I beat this wastrel to a pulp."

-- Knight's pre-battle prayers, of the Gray Temple and the Red Temple respectively