AWWA-Yesterday, Today, and Forever(OOC-Closed)

[Ruridova]

Fucking hell, I think Vak might have unintentionally done some excellent play on words.

[Bojikami]

Fucking hell, I think Vak might have unintentionally done some excellent play on words.

What?

[Ruridova]

Fucking hell, I think Vak might have unintentionally done some excellent play on words.

What?

I don't think this is a word in Russian, but there's an English word, "wordsmith". A wordsmith is someone who is skilled with words, who has a way with them, who can bend words to tell a story or send a message in the same way that a smith bends metals to make a tool or a weapon. Most wordsmiths are playwrights, rhetoricians, poets, or authors.

Now, the Latin word for smith is "faber". Faber refers to a literal smith, someone who handles metals. It is also the origin of several surnames in Romance countries, but it pops up the most in France. The French descendents of the Latin "faber" include Faure, Favreau... leFevre.

Gaius leFevre- an author, someone who bends words to make messages as a smith bends metal to make tools, a metaphorical smith of words- has the surname "the smith". Gaius the Smith is a wordsmith.

[Unicario]

What?

I don't think this is a word in Russian, but there's an English word, "wordsmith". A wordsmith is someone who is skilled with words, who has a way with them, who can bend words to tell a story or send a message in the same way that a smith bends metals to make a tool or a weapon. Most wordsmiths are playwrights, rhetoricians, poets, or authors.

Now, the Latin word for smith is "faber". Faber refers to a literal smith, someone who handles metals. It is also the origin of several surnames in Romance countries, but it pops up the most in France. The French descendents of the Latin "faber" include Faure, Favreau... leFevre.

Gaius leFevre- an author, someone who bends words to make messages as a smith bends metal to make tools, a metaphorical smith of words- has the surname "the smith". Gaius the Smith is a wordsmith.

And he's gonna taste some sweet Ruthenian brass and gunpowder.

[Bojikami]

What?

I don't think this is a word in Russian, but there's an English word, "wordsmith". A wordsmith is someone who is skilled with words, who has a way with them, who can bend words to tell a story or send a message in the same way that a smith bends metals to make a tool or a weapon. Most wordsmiths are playwrights, rhetoricians, poets, or authors.

Now, the Latin word for smith is "faber". Faber refers to a literal smith, someone who handles metals. It is also the origin of several surnames in Romance countries, but it pops up the most in France. The French descendents of the Latin "faber" include Faure, Favreau... leFevre.

Gaius leFevre- an author, someone who bends words to make messages as a smith bends metal to make tools, a metaphorical smith of words- has the surname "the smith". Gaius the Smith is a wordsmith.

I thought it was a rendition of the english word Fervent, as in with intense passion as LeFevre wrote.

[Ruridova]

I don't think this is a word in Russian, but there's an English word, "wordsmith". A wordsmith is someone who is skilled with words, who has a way with them, who can bend words to tell a story or send a message in the same way that a smith bends metals to make a tool or a weapon. Most wordsmiths are playwrights, rhetoricians, poets, or authors.

Now, the Latin word for smith is "faber". Faber refers to a literal smith, someone who handles metals. It is also the origin of several surnames in Romance countries, but it pops up the most in France. The French descendents of the Latin "faber" include Faure, Favreau... leFevre.

Gaius leFevre- an author, someone who bends words to make messages as a smith bends metal to make tools, a metaphorical smith of words- has the surname "the smith". Gaius the Smith is a wordsmith.

I thought it was a rendition of the english word Fervent, as in with intense passion as LeFevre wrote.

Nope. LeFevre, from the Latin faber, meaning smith.

[Shrillland]

For a wide variety of reasons, far too many to list here, I've decided not to respond ICly to Uni's and Boji's recent IC statements involving real-life issues, as much as I might like to.

This is the first step in my ongoing attempts to control myself and my emotions. Please bear with me as I struggle to control myself, and thank you all for your patience.

This is one of the reasons I don't do too many headlines myself. They're too emotionally charged to do at the moment. I understand completely.

[Luziyca]

In light of the issues that I have had towards everyone else and to the dickery that I have been expressing towards many of the players in the RP for a long time, I feel that it is better for all parties involved for me to take an extended vacation from this RP.

I have irritated many of my fellow RPers, and due to this, especially to the insensitive suggestions that I have given to Ruridova, my visions of seeing his lands carved up, and concealing them which ultimately failed, as well as a host of other things, I feel that I have been more of a pest and a disruption that causes more harm than any of the RPers who were expelled from AWWA.

The messages that I have received from an anonymous source has served as a wake-up call, and in light of the declining activity in the RP on my behalf, I am considering taking an extended vacation from this RP, until mid-December, I will trust these RPers to RP my nations:

Shrilland - Afghanistan, Guyane, Kenya and Madagascar (local affairs and people)
Unicario - China, Crimea
Bojikami - Greenland
Ruridova - Iceland, Portugal (+colonies and Morocco)

If there are any colonies or nations I forgot, it's up to Shrill to decide who gets the colony or nation. But my only condition upon them is to not change the canon too drastically (i.e. no colonizing or recolonizing them, no changing history pre-trusteeship unless I give you approval).

Depending on the situation, these may become permanent, but I hope that when I return, that I won't be such a dick to others in this RP like I have been for the past while.

[Ruridova]

the Dallas Morning News
TODAY'S HEADLINES
Thursday, November 27^th, 2014

FERGUSON RIOTS:
- Protests in the Saint Louis area itself dwindling due to Thanksgiving holiday, cold temperatures and precipitation
- 200 protesters did reportedly try to storm the Saint Louis City Hall, and large numbers were arrested for rioting in San Francisco and Oakland
- Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has refused to create a second grand jury; "the jury was multiethnic, the witnesses were multiethnic, the grand jury had all the evidence... there is also double jeopardy to consider"
- President Barack Obama has dismissed foreign criticism from Japan, the USSR, Tawantisuyu, Rum, and others as "hyperbolic, uninformed, unhelpful, and divisive"
- the CS Congress has declared foreign anti-Confederate protests to be a show of Confederophobia
- the Intermarium has voted to recognize the issue as "internal"; the EAU, carried by the Intermarium, former German sphere, and Norway, has passed a similar resolution

EBOLA OUTBREAK:
- Canadian and Confederate scientists have reported that a possible Ebola vaccine has shown "promising" results in trial; the drug appears to be safe to the immune system and effective in killing the virus
- Ebola has broken out in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and the Volta; the disease was briefly present in Mauritania and Nigeria before it was contained
- WHO, Doctors Without Borders, the UN, and others have viciously attacked the foreign response to the disease as grossly inadequate

VOLTAN CONFLICT:
- the Voltan government, presently in Abidjan, is continuing a campaign against Christian, Vodun, and Muslim militias that are also fighting each other
- Muslim militants and government forces are both trying to take Yamoussoukro from several Vodun militias
- Muslim and Vodun militants are also fighting for control of the cities of Ougadougou, Niamey, and Sikasso
- Muslim militants are trying to seize the government-held cities of Bamako, Segou, and Timbuktu in the far north of the country
- Vodun militants have attacked the Christian militias who currently hold Adjace and Lome, two major southern coastal cities
- the government has also begun a campaign to reclaim the de jure capital of Accra, which was seized by Christian militants earlier in the year

CAUCASIAN REGIME:
- Lord-Protector Nikoloz Svanidze has reportedly given his sister, Endzela Svanidze, several prominent positions in various departments of government
- the Svanidze dynasty has ruled Caucasia since 1835, but a female member of the family has never risen to such prominence

TEHUANTEPEC MISSING:
- large areas of Tehuantepec have been paralyzed by a 24-hour general strike to protest government corruption and the power of criminal gangs
- the national government of Tehuantepec has also reportedly expanded the list of local officials and criminal leaders listed as "highly wanted" for their possible roles in the disappearance of 43 student protesters

NETANYAHIST TERRORISM:
- the Rumite Empire has reportedly caught a Netanyahist cell planning to carry out terrorist attacks on several locations in Jerusalem
- 30 Netanyahists were reportedly arrested by the group, and large caches of weaponry were also seized
- the ZWC also reportedly captured several Netanyahists planning an attack on various synagogues and mosques in Yugoslavia
- the ZWC and Rum have cooperated on stopping Netanyahist attacks on each other, but sticking points remain; the ZWC wants the Rumite government to repeal a law which makes Zionism a crime in the country

BRAZILIAN CONFLICT:
- at least 19 East Brazilians and 24 West Brazilians are dead after a shootout along the border between the two countries, which have been at war since the late 1890s
- all of the deceased were soldiers, and there were no civilian casualties; it is unknown what exactly triggered the shootout
- Brazil's division into East and West was initially a succession dispute between Emperor Afonso of the East and Emperor Pedro III of the West, but it quickly took on an ideological tone that it has kept into the present

[Shrillland]

Here's hoping all you Americans enjoy a happy Thanksgiving with your families.

[Ruridova]

NCAA Football Rankings, Top 25
as of November 27, 2014

1 Alabama 10-1
2 Florida State 11-0
3 Mississippi State 10-1
4 Texas Christian(TCU) 9-1
5 Ohio 10-1
6 Baylor 9-1
7 California Los Angeles(UCLA) 9-2
8 Georgia 9-2
9 Michigan State 9-2
10 Arizona 9-2
11 Kansas State 8-2
12 Arizona State 9-2
13 Wisconsin 9-2
14 Auburn 8-3
15 Georgia Tech 9-2
16 Missouri 9-3
17 Minnesota 8-3
18 Mississippi(Ole Miss) 8-3
19 Oklahoma 8-3
20 Clemson 8-3
21 Louisville 8-3
22 Marshall 7-4
23 Utah 7-4
24 Louisiana State(LSU) 7-4
25 Arkansas 6-5

[Bojikami]

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Thomas A. Hendricks, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!
...
"As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"What the northerners do not understand is that Venezuela, and other south American nations do not apperecite being fearmongered into the same hegemonic empires from which we struggled to break free."
-Esteban Lopez, 1897

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"I am the only rightful Emperor of Asia. Asia shall be one house under my rule."
- Emperor Puyi after being declared Regent by the Kenpaitei, 1979

"The blood of the fascists shall water the gardens of Japan, and we shall forever relish in their defeat, for they shall not hold up against the triumph of the people."
- Empress Akane, 1979

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? Intellect, that's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
- Canadian abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth in the Confederate city of Akron, 1851


"...the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the Confederate States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why did our forefathers stand to defend their rights against the British Empire? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy, 1962

"The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americaners- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
...
And so, my fellow Americaners: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- inaugural address of CS President John F. Kennedy, 1963

"But all these years later, the negro still is not free. All these years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. All these years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. All these years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of Americaner society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the Martyred Fathers of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the First Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
...
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
...
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'. We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in New Orleans cannot vote and a negro in Chicago believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americaner dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to my home with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
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And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sonora. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New Mexico. Let freedom ring from the heightening Appalachians of Virginia. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Utah. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual:
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., in Washington, 1963

Five score and eighteen years ago, the Martyred Fathers dreamt of a new nation on this continent, conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Two score and seventeen years ago, the Victorious Fathers made this into a reality.
Now the world is engaged in a great world war, testing whether that nation- or any nation so conceived and so dedicated- can long endure. We meet near to the battlefields of all three of the great wars this nation has faced, part of a continent that has itself become a battlefield. We have come here to dedicate a ground once owned by one of our great leaders, near where another great leader of ours gave his life in the hope that his nation would live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate or consecrate this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled for our nation, have consecrated it, far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here- but it can never forget what has been done by those who will rest here. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have fought for our country have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave their lives- that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
- President Thomas Hendricks at the dedication of Arlington National Cemetery, 1891

"Today is truly a day of victory. A victory for not only the Russian people but a victory in the name of peace at last. I only wish Trotsky and Belinsky had lived to see this."
-Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow after the overthrow of the Republic by the communists, 1991.

"Our free peoples stand surrounded by the empires of fear and blood, empires that wish for us to be their slaves. To the east, there is Russia, looking to expand west; to the west, the Germans, looking to expand east; to the south, Rum, looking to expand north. If we remain divided, then we remain weak, we remain targets for those who would conquer us.
We will not permit this. The nations of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia are entitled to sovereignty and liberty, and we will not allow these to be stolen from us. We have fought long and hard for what is rightfully ours, and we will not abandon these hard-fought rights. We will not be intimidated, nor will we be harassed, nor will we be oppressed. We will stand before those who seek our destruction and deny them. We will stand before Death, before Slavery, before Tyranny, and we will tell them, 'not today and not ever'. We will defy evil, and will survive in spite of it all.
The Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Polish, Baltic, and Finnish-Estonian people will never again be shackled or conquered. From this day forth, we shall stand united, as friends. From this day forward, we shall protect each other from all threats, foreign and domestic, to guarantee our mutual liberty, security, and prosperity. From this day forth, we are united as one in a great alliance, and will at all times cooperate with each other and strive together. From this day on we will stand beside each other as brothers, and we will do all that is necessary for the continued sovereignty and liberty of all our peoples."
- excerpt from the Intermarian Treaty, 1892

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the Intermarians and the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
There are some who say that Germany is a free, democratic, peaceful country.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, that we should be working with the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are even a few who say that, while Germany has its flaws, they have been overblown by the Intermarium.
Let them come to Bratislava."
- Czechoslovak President Aleksandr Dubček

"There is no such thing as the nation. There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand this soon, then there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
- attributed to Fahd al-Massoum, first Grand Mufti of Mauritania

"We are a nation of differences, and that cannot be denied. But that will never be our weakness. It will always be our strength. We all know this, in our hearts. We will survive the attacks from those who would force us to fight our brothers and sisters, and we will emerge more unified than ever before. That is who we are. That is what we are built upon. That is what we stand for. That is how we live."
- Yugoslavia's King Dragomir, 2000, following the Yugoslav Wars

"Whatever our beliefs, we must cherish three things above all: cooperation, tolerance, and righteousness. For these three values, there is no substitute."
- Hayim ben Tziyon, the Zionist Papers

"I want there to be two mottos on this coat of arms you have given to me: above the shield, the words veritas vos liberabit, the truth will set you free, and below the shield, the words calamus gladio fortior, the pen is mightier than the sword. These are the words that I have lived by, and I hope those who come after me shall live by them as well."
- Georg von Licht, after being told that the Emperor of Germany was allowing the von Licht family a coat of arms, 1837

"My husband considered himself Chinese. Though he had long since been truly Japanese, his mother, grandmother, and great grandfather all being Japanese, he still called himself Chinese. The court of Manchukuo resembled something out of an old kabuki theatre depiction of a Chinese court in the time before Daoguang... and yet, Puyi relished in every minute. He considered himself more and more Chinese, despite the fact that the very nation he was warring against through his Empire of Manchukuo was the nation he claimed to be saving from corruption. I had long loathed what he was doing, but I was powerless to stop it by that point. When the Kwangtung officers told us we were evacuating Harbin for a region further north in Manchuria, I refused to go, and fled southwest. I met my family again, my darling mother, and I returned to Japan shortly afterwards, and divorced him, and we never spoke again."
- Princess Zheng Aisin-Gioro, wife of Emperor Puyi (1928-1938), 1989

"If I ever see that rat Puyi again, I will strangle him."
- Emperor Dowager Alexander, 1980

"By order of the National Preservation Council, and transitional Emperor of the Ethiopian nation, Qing, you, Puyi, dishonorable ronin, expelled from the Aisin-Gioro clan for treasonous actions against your own blood, waging a war for several years in Manchuria, claiming to be the true Son of Heaven in Manchuria, the rightful Chinese Emperor. Expelled from the Yamato clan for your attempts to unseat Akane, Esteemed Empress of the Japanese Empire. The dishonorable one, Puyi, is also charged with seditious acts against Ethiopia, consorting with terrorists, and bypassing the rule of parliament without constitutional right. You are hereby sentenced by this court to death..."
- General Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, 1983

"Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of a nation that will never slumber again,
When the beating of our hearts echoes the roaring of the drums,
A nation shall be reborn when tomorrow comes!"
- Rallying cry of the Juche rebels, 1979, taken from Die Elenden's play form.

"I have graduated from the Georg von Licht School of Book-Writing."
- Rumite author Ludwig Eichemann, following the success of his book Along the Ehre

"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
'Eat in the kitchen,'
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America."
- I, Too, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee

"Oh, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be- the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine- the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

Oh, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-
America will be!"
- excerpt from Let America be America Again, by Frederick Lee

"Our nations are remarkable in how similar they truly are to each other. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are martyrs for the Confederate cause, and fathers of the Japanese cause. My daughter Ranko stood along-side Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and walked on the surface of the moon with them. The Constitution that binds the Japanese state, begins with the same words that rang true in Philadelphia almost 200 years ago. We the People. Here stands the testament that despite differences, hatred, rivalry and imperial ambition, two nations can reconcile themselves. Here, where several hundred Japanese and American sailors gave their life, where an island was ravaged by war, and the Great War began in the Pacific, we commemorate the peace that has endured now for fifty years, and it is a blessing from whichever God you praise, that we have endured. The Confederacy and Japan should be brothers, not enemies."
- Emperor Alexander II's speech at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the 50th Anniversary of the Day of Infamy.

"The French Republic was not evil, nor was it a mistake, nor was it decadent or corrupt. It was ran by incompetence, and it will never return, for it has never worked for the French people."
- Ferdinand Foch, 1898

"Before us is none but Brennus, enemy of Rome, and destroyer of civilization. It is this brute and others like him that sought to drive this world back into the dark ages of eternal war. I make no further statement today other than 'Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria'."
-Benito Mussolini, at the execution of Gaius leFevre

"LeFevre, as distasteful as he was in life, now joins the ranks of those who have been killed for excersizing their right to free speech."
- Gavriil fon Likht, following the murder of Gaius leFevre

"Jefferson told us of the door of liberty; Washington set out to find it; Davis showed us to it; Lee unlocked it; Hendricks opened it; Kennedy led us through."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964

"Until this moment, Mr. Shenes, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Ariel Nissim is a young man who went to Harvard University's law school and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with my firm. It is true that he will continue to be with my firm. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me."

"May I say that Mr. Kohen talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Efrayim here for hours, requesting that Mr. Efrayim, before sundown, get out of any department of government anyone who is serving the Netanyahist cause. I just give this man’s record, and I want to say, Mr. Kohen, that it has been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944-"

"Mr. Shenes, may we not drop this? We know he had some college friends among the Netanyahists, and Imamuel Efrayim nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Efrayim. I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I did, Mr. Efrayim, I beg your pardon."

"I would like to finish this-"

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, sir."

"Mr. Kohen, I know it-"

"All right, sir, you've done enough... God Almighty, have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
- argument between defense lawyer Eliyahu Kohen and Knesset member Yehoshua Shenes during the 1953 Nuremberg Trials, in which various ZWC members were accused of being Netanyahists, with those found guilty sent to Rum to be tried as criminals; defense legal assistant Ariel Nissim and Knesset member Imanuel Efrayim, both present at the trials, are also mentioned in the conversation

"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute- he pets his fancies-
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,
Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces."
- Confederate poet Frederick Lee, Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
- excerpt from the 1st Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson

"Why didn't you beat the Czechoslovaks in sixty days, like you said you would?"

"Because we found we actually had to fight a skilled and honorable enemy on the Czechoslovak front."
- German General Helmuth von Moltke "the Younger" in conversation with French-German author Alaric Bisser, 1891

"Peace, Land and Bread is our absolute goal, for every man, woman and child in France."
- Ferdinand Foch, December 25, 1897

"...Shame upon you men who desecrate our ancestor's memory in the name of your Lichtian beliefs. Your attempts to censor media critical of your state has proved that indeed, you understand nothing of our ancestor's labors for freedom. Both here in Japan, and in your country."
- Thomas Jefferson III, 1897, in response to the Confederate Congress trying to ban Antoni Belinsky's book.

"But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, back before the Reconciliation, and during my time as Foreign Minister in the 1940s, I attended a summit in Washington D.C. I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops near the Mall, where the great statues to the Martyred and Victorious Fathers stand.

Even though our visit was a surprise, every Americaner there immediately recognized us, and called out my name and reached for my hand. I was just about swept away by the warmth - you could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, an FBI detail pushed their way toward me and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Confederate States had yearned for peace and brotherhood, the Government was still - and those who run it were still reluctant to reach out their hand - and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently, and that still has not changed now, in 1975. 'Keep Up Our Guard', is something we must practice."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"It was back in the early 1960s, at the height of the Indonesian War, and the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Sangoshima, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most Japanese servicemen, was young, smart and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat - and crammed inside were refugees from Indonesia hoping to get to Japan. The Sangoshima sent a small launch to bring them to the ship, and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, Japanese sailor - Hello, Freedom Man."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll go down to Moscow myself and make you feel regret for even being born."
-Antoni Belinsky to Alexander Kerensky, 1954

[Unicario]

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Thomas A. Hendricks, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!
...
"As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"What the northerners do not understand is that Venezuela, and other south American nations do not apperecite being fearmongered into the same hegemonic empires from which we struggled to break free."
-Esteban Lopez, 1897

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"I am the only rightful Emperor of Asia. Asia shall be one house under my rule."
- Emperor Puyi after being declared Regent by the Kenpaitei, 1979

"The blood of the fascists shall water the gardens of Japan, and we shall forever relish in their defeat, for they shall not hold up against the triumph of the people."
- Empress Akane, 1979

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? Intellect, that's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
- Canadian abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth in the Confederate city of Akron, 1851


"...the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the Confederate States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why did our forefathers stand to defend their rights against the British Empire? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy, 1962

"The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americaners- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
...
And so, my fellow Americaners: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- inaugural address of CS President John F. Kennedy, 1963

"But all these years later, the negro still is not free. All these years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. All these years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. All these years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of Americaner society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the Martyred Fathers of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the First Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
...
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
...
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'. We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in New Orleans cannot vote and a negro in Chicago believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
...
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americaner dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to my home with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
...
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sonora. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New Mexico. Let freedom ring from the heightening Appalachians of Virginia. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Utah. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual:
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., in Washington, 1963

Five score and eighteen years ago, the Martyred Fathers dreamt of a new nation on this continent, conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Two score and seventeen years ago, the Victorious Fathers made this into a reality.
Now the world is engaged in a great world war, testing whether that nation- or any nation so conceived and so dedicated- can long endure. We meet near to the battlefields of all three of the great wars this nation has faced, part of a continent that has itself become a battlefield. We have come here to dedicate a ground once owned by one of our great leaders, near where another great leader of ours gave his life in the hope that his nation would live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate or consecrate this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled for our nation, have consecrated it, far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here- but it can never forget what has been done by those who will rest here. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have fought for our country have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave their lives- that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
- President Thomas Hendricks at the dedication of Arlington National Cemetery, 1891

"Today is truly a day of victory. A victory for not only the Russian people but a victory in the name of peace at last. I only wish Trotsky and Belinsky had lived to see this."
-Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow after the overthrow of the Republic by the communists, 1991.

"Our free peoples stand surrounded by the empires of fear and blood, empires that wish for us to be their slaves. To the east, there is Russia, looking to expand west; to the west, the Germans, looking to expand east; to the south, Rum, looking to expand north. If we remain divided, then we remain weak, we remain targets for those who would conquer us.
We will not permit this. The nations of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia are entitled to sovereignty and liberty, and we will not allow these to be stolen from us. We have fought long and hard for what is rightfully ours, and we will not abandon these hard-fought rights. We will not be intimidated, nor will we be harassed, nor will we be oppressed. We will stand before those who seek our destruction and deny them. We will stand before Death, before Slavery, before Tyranny, and we will tell them, 'not today and not ever'. We will defy evil, and will survive in spite of it all.
The Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Polish, Baltic, and Finnish-Estonian people will never again be shackled or conquered. From this day forth, we shall stand united, as friends. From this day forward, we shall protect each other from all threats, foreign and domestic, to guarantee our mutual liberty, security, and prosperity. From this day forth, we are united as one in a great alliance, and will at all times cooperate with each other and strive together. From this day on we will stand beside each other as brothers, and we will do all that is necessary for the continued sovereignty and liberty of all our peoples."
- excerpt from the Intermarian Treaty, 1892

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the Intermarians and the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
There are some who say that Germany is a free, democratic, peaceful country.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, that we should be working with the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are even a few who say that, while Germany has its flaws, they have been overblown by the Intermarium.
Let them come to Bratislava."
- Czechoslovak President Aleksandr Dubček

"There is no such thing as the nation. There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand this soon, then there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
- attributed to Fahd al-Massoum, first Grand Mufti of Mauritania

"We are a nation of differences, and that cannot be denied. But that will never be our weakness. It will always be our strength. We all know this, in our hearts. We will survive the attacks from those who would force us to fight our brothers and sisters, and we will emerge more unified than ever before. That is who we are. That is what we are built upon. That is what we stand for. That is how we live."
- Yugoslavia's King Dragomir, 2000, following the Yugoslav Wars

"Whatever our beliefs, we must cherish three things above all: cooperation, tolerance, and righteousness. For these three values, there is no substitute."
- Hayim ben Tziyon, the Zionist Papers

"I want there to be two mottos on this coat of arms you have given to me: above the shield, the words veritas vos liberabit, the truth will set you free, and below the shield, the words calamus gladio fortior, the pen is mightier than the sword. These are the words that I have lived by, and I hope those who come after me shall live by them as well."
- Georg von Licht, after being told that the Emperor of Germany was allowing the von Licht family a coat of arms, 1837

"My husband considered himself Chinese. Though he had long since been truly Japanese, his mother, grandmother, and great grandfather all being Japanese, he still called himself Chinese. The court of Manchukuo resembled something out of an old kabuki theatre depiction of a Chinese court in the time before Daoguang... and yet, Puyi relished in every minute. He considered himself more and more Chinese, despite the fact that the very nation he was warring against through his Empire of Manchukuo was the nation he claimed to be saving from corruption. I had long loathed what he was doing, but I was powerless to stop it by that point. When the Kwangtung officers told us we were evacuating Harbin for a region further north in Manchuria, I refused to go, and fled southwest. I met my family again, my darling mother, and I returned to Japan shortly afterwards, and divorced him, and we never spoke again."
- Princess Zheng Aisin-Gioro, wife of Emperor Puyi (1928-1938), 1989

"If I ever see that rat Puyi again, I will strangle him."
- Empress Dowager Kyasarin, 1980

"By order of the National Preservation Council, and transitional Emperor of the Ethiopian nation, Qing, you, Puyi, dishonorable ronin, expelled from the Aisin-Gioro clan for treasonous actions against your own blood, waging a war for several years in Manchuria, claiming to be the true Son of Heaven in Manchuria, the rightful Chinese Emperor. Expelled from the Yamato clan for your attempts to unseat Akane, Esteemed Empress of the Japanese Empire. The dishonorable one, Puyi, is also charged with seditious acts against Ethiopia, consorting with terrorists, and bypassing the rule of parliament without constitutional right. You are hereby sentenced by this court to death..."
- General Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, 1983

"Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of a nation that will never slumber again,
When the beating of our hearts echoes the roaring of the drums,
A nation shall be reborn when tomorrow comes!"
- Rallying cry of the Juche rebels, 1979, taken from Die Elenden's play form.

"I have graduated from the Georg von Licht School of Book-Writing."
- Rumite author Ludwig Eichemann, following the success of his book Along the Ehre

"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
'Eat in the kitchen,'
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America."
- I, Too, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee

"Oh, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be- the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine- the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

Oh, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-
America will be!"
- excerpt from Let America be America Again, by Frederick Lee

"Our nations are remarkable in how similar they truly are to each other. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are martyrs for the Confederate cause, and fathers of the Japanese cause. My daughter Ranko stood along-side Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and walked on the surface of the moon with them. The Constitution that binds the Japanese state, begins with the same words that rang true in Philadelphia almost 200 years ago. We the People. Here stands the testament that despite differences, hatred, rivalry and imperial ambition, two nations can reconcile themselves. Here, where several hundred Japanese and American sailors gave their life, where an island was ravaged by war, and the Great War began in the Pacific, we commemorate the peace that has endured now for fifty years, and it is a blessing from whichever God you praise, that we have endured. The Confederacy and Japan should be brothers, not enemies."
- Emperor Kyasarin's speech at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the 50th Anniversary of the Day of Infamy.

"The French Republic was not evil, nor was it a mistake, nor was it decadent or corrupt. It was ran by incompetence, and it will never return, for it has never worked for the French people."
- Ferdinand Foch, 1898

"Before us is none but Brennus, enemy of Rome, and destroyer of civilization. It is this brute and others like him that sought to drive this world back into the dark ages of eternal war. I make no further statement today other than 'Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria'."
-Benito Mussolini, at the execution of Gaius leFevre

"LeFevre, as distasteful as he was in life, now joins the ranks of those who have been killed for excersizing their right to free speech."
- Gavriil fon Likht, following the murder of Gaius leFevre

"Jefferson told us of the door of liberty; Washington set out to find it; Davis showed us to it; Lee unlocked it; Hendricks opened it; Kennedy led us through."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964

"Until this moment, Mr. Shenes, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Ariel Nissim is a young man who went to Harvard University's law school and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with my firm. It is true that he will continue to be with my firm. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me."

"May I say that Mr. Kohen talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Efrayim here for hours, requesting that Mr. Efrayim, before sundown, get out of any department of government anyone who is serving the Netanyahist cause. I just give this man’s record, and I want to say, Mr. Kohen, that it has been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944-"

"Mr. Shenes, may we not drop this? We know he had some college friends among the Netanyahists, and Imamuel Efrayim nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Efrayim. I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I did, Mr. Efrayim, I beg your pardon."

"I would like to finish this-"

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, sir."

"Mr. Kohen, I know it-"

"All right, sir, you've done enough... God Almighty, have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
- argument between defense lawyer Eliyahu Kohen and Knesset member Yehoshua Shenes during the 1953 Nuremberg Trials, in which various ZWC members were accused of being Netanyahists, with those found guilty sent to Rum to be tried as criminals; defense legal assistant Ariel Nissim and Knesset member Imanuel Efrayim, both present at the trials, are also mentioned in the conversation

"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute- he pets his fancies-
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,
Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces."
- Confederate poet Frederick Lee, Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
- excerpt from the 1st Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson

"Why didn't you beat the Czechoslovaks in sixty days, like you said you would?"

"Because we found we actually had to fight a skilled and honorable enemy on the Czechoslovak front."
- German General Helmuth von Moltke "the Younger" in conversation with French-German author Alaric Bisser, 1891

"Peace, Land and Bread is our absolute goal, for every man, woman and child in France."
- Ferdinand Foch, December 25, 1897

"...Shame upon you men who desecrate our ancestor's memory in the name of your Lichtian beliefs. Your attempts to censor media critical of your state has proved that indeed, you understand nothing of our ancestor's labors for freedom. Both here in Japan, and in your country."
- Thomas Jefferson III, 1897, in response to the Confederate Congress trying to ban Antoni Belinsky's book.

"But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, back before the Reconciliation, and during my time as Foreign Minister in the 1940s, I attended a summit in Washington D.C. I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops near the Mall, where the great statues to the Martyred and Victorious Fathers stand.

Even though our visit was a surprise, every Americaner there immediately recognized us, and called out my name and reached for my hand. I was just about swept away by the warmth - you could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, an FBI detail pushed their way toward me and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Confederate States had yearned for peace and brotherhood, the Government was still - and those who run it were still reluctant to reach out their hand - and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently, and that still has not changed now, in 1975. 'Keep Up Our Guard', is something we must practice."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"It was back in the early 1960s, at the height of the Indonesian War, and the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Sangoshima, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most Japanese servicemen, was young, smart and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat - and crammed inside were refugees from Indonesia hoping to get to Japan. The Sangoshima sent a small launch to bring them to the ship, and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, Japanese sailor - Hello, Freedom Man."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll go down to Moscow myself and make you feel regret for even being born."
-Antoni Belinsky to Alexander Kerensky, 1954

"I do not do things part-way. I finish every job handed before me, and believe me, I shall do my job well."
- Empress Kyasarin of Japan to her Geisha trainer, 1925

[Ruridova]

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Thomas A. Hendricks, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!
...
"As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"What the northerners do not understand is that Venezuela, and other south American nations do not apperecite being fearmongered into the same hegemonic empires from which we struggled to break free."
-Esteban Lopez, 1897

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"I am the only rightful Emperor of Asia. Asia shall be one house under my rule."
- Emperor Puyi after being declared Regent by the Kenpaitei, 1979

"The blood of the fascists shall water the gardens of Japan, and we shall forever relish in their defeat, for they shall not hold up against the triumph of the people."
- Empress Akane, 1979

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? Intellect, that's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
- Canadian abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth in the Confederate city of Akron, 1851


"...the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the Confederate States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why did our forefathers stand to defend their rights against the British Empire? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy, 1962

"The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americaners- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
...
And so, my fellow Americaners: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- inaugural address of CS President John F. Kennedy, 1963

"But all these years later, the negro still is not free. All these years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. All these years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. All these years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of Americaner society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the Martyred Fathers of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the First Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
...
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
...
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'. We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in New Orleans cannot vote and a negro in Chicago believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
...
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americaner dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to my home with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
...
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sonora. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New Mexico. Let freedom ring from the heightening Appalachians of Virginia. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Utah. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual:
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., in Washington, 1963

Five score and eighteen years ago, the Martyred Fathers dreamt of a new nation on this continent, conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Two score and seventeen years ago, the Victorious Fathers made this into a reality.
Now the world is engaged in a great world war, testing whether that nation- or any nation so conceived and so dedicated- can long endure. We meet near to the battlefields of all three of the great wars this nation has faced, part of a continent that has itself become a battlefield. We have come here to dedicate a ground once owned by one of our great leaders, near where another great leader of ours gave his life in the hope that his nation would live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate or consecrate this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled for our nation, have consecrated it, far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here- but it can never forget what has been done by those who will rest here. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have fought for our country have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave their lives- that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
- President Thomas Hendricks at the dedication of Arlington National Cemetery, 1891

"Today is truly a day of victory. A victory for not only the Russian people but a victory in the name of peace at last. I only wish Trotsky and Belinsky had lived to see this."
-Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow after the overthrow of the Republic by the communists, 1991.

"Our free peoples stand surrounded by the empires of fear and blood, empires that wish for us to be their slaves. To the east, there is Russia, looking to expand west; to the west, the Germans, looking to expand east; to the south, Rum, looking to expand north. If we remain divided, then we remain weak, we remain targets for those who would conquer us.
We will not permit this. The nations of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia are entitled to sovereignty and liberty, and we will not allow these to be stolen from us. We have fought long and hard for what is rightfully ours, and we will not abandon these hard-fought rights. We will not be intimidated, nor will we be harassed, nor will we be oppressed. We will stand before those who seek our destruction and deny them. We will stand before Death, before Slavery, before Tyranny, and we will tell them, 'not today and not ever'. We will defy evil, and will survive in spite of it all.
The Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Polish, Baltic, and Finnish-Estonian people will never again be shackled or conquered. From this day forth, we shall stand united, as friends. From this day forward, we shall protect each other from all threats, foreign and domestic, to guarantee our mutual liberty, security, and prosperity. From this day forth, we are united as one in a great alliance, and will at all times cooperate with each other and strive together. From this day on we will stand beside each other as brothers, and we will do all that is necessary for the continued sovereignty and liberty of all our peoples."
- excerpt from the Intermarian Treaty, 1892

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the Intermarians and the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
There are some who say that Germany is a free, democratic, peaceful country.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, that we should be working with the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are even a few who say that, while Germany has its flaws, they have been overblown by the Intermarium.
Let them come to Bratislava."
- Czechoslovak President Aleksandr Dubček, referencing the fact that the Iron Curtain was visible from the city of Bratislava

"There is no such thing as the nation. There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand this soon, then there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
- attributed to Fahd al-Massoum, first Grand Mufti of Mauritania

"We are a nation of differences, and that cannot be denied. But that will never be our weakness. It will always be our strength. We all know this, in our hearts. We will survive the attacks from those who would force us to fight our brothers and sisters, and we will emerge more unified than ever before. That is who we are. That is what we are built upon. That is what we stand for. That is how we live."
- Yugoslavia's King Dragomir, 2000, following the Yugoslav Wars

"Whatever our beliefs, we must cherish three things above all: cooperation, tolerance, and righteousness. For these three values, there is no substitute."
- Hayim ben Tziyon, the Zionist Papers

"I want there to be two mottos on this coat of arms you have given to me: above the shield, the words veritas vos liberabit, the truth will set you free, and below the shield, the words calamus gladio fortior, the pen is mightier than the sword. These are the words that I have lived by, and I hope those who come after me shall live by them as well."
- Georg von Licht, after being told that the Emperor of Germany was allowing the von Licht family a coat of arms, 1837

"My husband considered himself Chinese. Though he had long since been truly Japanese, his mother, grandmother, and great grandfather all being Japanese, he still called himself Chinese. The court of Manchukuo resembled something out of an old kabuki theatre depiction of a Chinese court in the time before Daoguang... and yet, Puyi relished in every minute. He considered himself more and more Chinese, despite the fact that the very nation he was warring against through his Empire of Manchukuo was the nation he claimed to be saving from corruption. I had long loathed what he was doing, but I was powerless to stop it by that point. When the Kwangtung officers told us we were evacuating Harbin for a region further north in Manchuria, I refused to go, and fled southwest. I met my family again, my darling mother, and I returned to Japan shortly afterwards, and divorced him, and we never spoke again."
- Princess Zheng Aisin-Gioro, wife of Emperor Puyi (1928-1938), 1989

"If I ever see that rat Puyi again, I will strangle him."
- Empress Dowager Kyasarin, 1980

"By order of the National Preservation Council, and transitional Emperor of the Ethiopian nation, Qing, you, Puyi, dishonorable ronin, expelled from the Aisin-Gioro clan for treasonous actions against your own blood, waging a war for several years in Manchuria, claiming to be the true Son of Heaven in Manchuria, the rightful Chinese Emperor. Expelled from the Yamato clan for your attempts to unseat Akane, Esteemed Empress of the Japanese Empire. The dishonorable one, Puyi, is also charged with seditious acts against Ethiopia, consorting with terrorists, and bypassing the rule of parliament without constitutional right. You are hereby sentenced by this court to death..."
- General Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, 1983

"Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of a nation that will never slumber again,
When the beating of our hearts echoes the roaring of the drums,
A nation shall be reborn when tomorrow comes!"
- Rallying cry of the Juche rebels, 1979, taken from Die Elenden's play form.

"I have graduated from the Georg von Licht School of Book-Writing."
- Rumite author Ludwig Eichemann, following the success of his book Along the Ehre

"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
'Eat in the kitchen,'
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America."
- I, Too, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee

"Oh, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be- the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine- the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

Oh, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-
America will be!"
- excerpt from Let America be America Again, by Frederick Lee

"Our nations are remarkable in how similar they truly are to each other. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are martyrs for the Confederate cause, and fathers of the Japanese cause. My daughter Ranko stood along-side Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and walked on the surface of the moon with them. The Constitution that binds the Japanese state, begins with the same words that rang true in Philadelphia almost 200 years ago. We the People. Here stands the testament that despite differences, hatred, rivalry and imperial ambition, two nations can reconcile themselves. Here, where several hundred Japanese and American sailors gave their life, where an island was ravaged by war, and the Great War began in the Pacific, we commemorate the peace that has endured now for fifty years, and it is a blessing from whichever God you praise, that we have endured. The Confederacy and Japan should be brothers, not enemies."
- Emperor Kyasarin's speech at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the 50th Anniversary of the Day of Infamy.

"The French Republic was not evil, nor was it a mistake, nor was it decadent or corrupt. It was ran by incompetence, and it will never return, for it has never worked for the French people."
- Ferdinand Foch, 1898

"Before us is none but Brennus, enemy of Rome, and destroyer of civilization. It is this brute and others like him that sought to drive this world back into the dark ages of eternal war. I make no further statement today other than 'Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria'."
-Benito Mussolini, at the execution of Gaius leFevre

"LeFevre, as distasteful as he was in life, now joins the ranks of those who have been killed for excersizing their right to free speech."
- Gavriil fon Likht, following the murder of Gaius leFevre

"Jefferson told us of the door of liberty; Washington set out to find it; Davis showed us to it; Lee unlocked it; Hendricks opened it; Kennedy led us through."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964

"Until this moment, Mr. Shenes, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Ariel Nissim is a young man who went to Harvard University's law school and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with my firm. It is true that he will continue to be with my firm. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me."

"May I say that Mr. Kohen talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Efrayim here for hours, requesting that Mr. Efrayim, before sundown, get out of any department of government anyone who is serving the Netanyahist cause. I just give this man’s record, and I want to say, Mr. Kohen, that it has been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944-"

"Mr. Shenes, may we not drop this? We know he had some college friends among the Netanyahists, and Imamuel Efrayim nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Efrayim. I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I did, Mr. Efrayim, I beg your pardon."

"I would like to finish this-"

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, sir."

"Mr. Kohen, I know it-"

"All right, sir, you've done enough... God Almighty, have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
- argument between defense lawyer Eliyahu Kohen and Knesset member Yehoshua Shenes during the 1953 Nuremberg Trials, in which various ZWC members were accused of being Netanyahists, with those found guilty sent to Rum to be tried as criminals; defense legal assistant Ariel Nissim and Knesset member Imanuel Efrayim, both present at the trials, are also mentioned in the conversation

"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute- he pets his fancies-
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,
Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces."
- Confederate poet Frederick Lee, Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
- excerpt from the 1st Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson

"Why didn't you beat the Czechoslovaks in sixty days, like you said you would?"

"Because we found we actually had to fight a skilled and honorable enemy on the Czechoslovak front."
- German General Helmuth von Moltke "the Younger" in conversation with French-German author Alaric Bisser, 1891

"Peace, Land and Bread is our absolute goal, for every man, woman and child in France."
- Ferdinand Foch, December 25, 1897

"...Shame upon you men who desecrate our ancestor's memory in the name of your Lichtian beliefs. Your attempts to censor media critical of your state has proved that indeed, you understand nothing of our ancestor's labors for freedom. Both here in Japan, and in your country."
- Thomas Jefferson III, 1897, in response to the Confederate Congress trying to ban Antoni Belinsky's book.

"But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, back before the Reconciliation, and during my time as Foreign Minister in the 1940s, I attended a summit in Washington D.C. I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops near the Mall, where the great statues to the Martyred and Victorious Fathers stand.

Even though our visit was a surprise, every Americaner there immediately recognized us, and called out my name and reached for my hand. I was just about swept away by the warmth - you could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, an FBI detail pushed their way toward me and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Confederate States had yearned for peace and brotherhood, the Government was still - and those who run it were still reluctant to reach out their hand - and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently, and that still has not changed now, in 1975. 'Keep Up Our Guard', is something we must practice."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"It was back in the early 1960s, at the height of the Indonesian War, and the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Sangoshima, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most Japanese servicemen, was young, smart and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat - and crammed inside were refugees from Indonesia hoping to get to Japan. The Sangoshima sent a small launch to bring them to the ship, and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, Japanese sailor - Hello, Freedom Man."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll go down to Moscow myself and make you feel regret for even being born."
-Antoni Belinsky to Alexander Kerensky, 1954

"I do not do things part-way. I finish every job handed before me, and believe me, I shall do my job well."
- Empress Kyasarin of Japan to her Geisha trainer, 1925

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win... hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Pray for a new age
Pray for liberation!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

Pray for the old state
Pray for a transformation!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

History will show
That good's progress is slow.
When we win,
We win in inches.

The people, deaf,
Bribed into silence,
Will need awakening
Or else no one will listen!

Liberty, equality, fraternity!

I know where I stand
I know we fight for our land-
Not the state,
But the land.

Know I'm not kneeling
To any evil man-
I stand up
Like heroes before.

Liberty, equality, fraternity!

Pray for a new age
Pray for assassination!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

Traitors rule, but
I don't believe those in evil's lair,
Who call it sin
To have a differing opinion.

Know that I'm a free man
And I won't leave where I stand-
Against affronts
To god and country

Pray for the old state
Pray for revolution!
I can help, see,
To help others believe."
- anonymous author; first appeared in a Mulhouse/Mülhausen newspaper in 1907, presumably written by an ethnic Frenchman living in Germany about fascist France

[Ruridova]

HISTORY OF THE BULGAR PEOPLES (warning: this is still very much a rough draft/work in progress, and all dates are fluid)

700s BCE: the Bulgars(Bulgar: Bolqaryin) emerge as a distinct Turkic people living in what is OTL Mongolia; they follow a unique religion, Itmanism(from the word "itman", meaning "faith"), focused around a warrior-trickster god(Ukhavcili) and a goddess of prosperity and fertility(Qerembolor).
552 BCE: the Bulgars are exiled for heresy by Bumin Illig Qhagan of the Gokturks. Led by Boyikhchan Khaliyesi, they begin to cross the steppes. Boyikhchan Khaliyesi declares himself Khagan(Haqaan) of the Bulgars, and decrees that further kings shall be elected by the Kurultai(Qurultayin), a collection of Bulgar warriors and nobles(which, in Bulgar society, are roughly the same). A caste system develops: on the top, the priests; in the middle, the warriors; on the bottom, everyone else. The bottom caste has three subcastes: merchants and artisans, farmers and laborers, and slaves and servants.
436 BCE: Under Qiravci Khoyorci Haqaan, the Bulgars finally reach what is OTL the Novorossiya region of Ukraine; they name it Bulgaria(Bolqaryca). The Bulgars also first appear in Roman writings, as the Bulgarii.
311 BCE: Deivasci Ihmalsev Haqaan begins Bulgar expansion. They take OTL Romania, Crimea, Ukraine, Abkhazia, southern Russia, and Bulgaria within the century; the Bulgars largely settle in these regions.
275 BCE: Khubret Lazdineriig Haqaan decides to create a new script for the Bulgars; he takes the Syriac abjad and makes it into an alphabet that works with Bulgar. He mandates that, from now on, the Bulgars use the script.
90s CE: The Bulgars, under Sherenlitai Tusgalduulsan Haqaan, encounter the Huns. An attempt in 91 to invade Bulgar territory fails drastically for the Huns, who instead opt for easier prey to the north. The Romans attempt to take Dacia and Moesia(both under Bulgar rule); the attempt is a humiliating failure.
178 CE: Qanichin Aldaasizluq Haqaan is assassinated by Evcelki Nertirhasi, another noble, the day after Qanichin's election to the title by the Qurultayin. Evcelki is elected Haqaan, and begins to initiate Bulgar raids on the aging Roman Empire. Philippopolis, Adrianople, and Naissus are all repeatedly subjected to attacks by the Bulgars.
241 CE: Khuvirste Isiqin Haqaan becomes a Manichaean; much of the realm follows suit. Many Bulgars abandon their traditional Itmanism for Manichaeism, and Itmanism begins to die out.
269 CE: Sapikir Ekhlekiq Haqaan is elected, and reveals himself to be an Itmanist, not a Manichaean, and he begins attempting to restore Itmanism by thrusting Manichaeans from power and replacing them with Itmanists. Most notably, he decrees that Manichaeans cannot participate in the Qurultayin, which leads to a string of Itmanists ruling the country again.
274 CE: Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, dies in Persia. A Manichaean priest named Teqib Khavidletmek declares himself to be successor to Mani, establishing the Bulgar Manichaean Church.
314 CE: Khamunin Qetilyik Haqaan, the final Itmanist Haqaan, is assassinated by Tanrusakh Qayitmek, a Manichaean warrior. Tanrusakh Qayitmek and the armies of many other Manichaean Bulgars forces the Qurultayin to allow Manichaeans to participate alongside Itmanists. Tanrusakh Qayitmek is elected Haqaan, and reverses the measures passed to try and quash Manichaeism, replacing them with the persecution of Itmanists and the establishment of the Bulgar Manichaean Church as the state religion, sealing the fate of the Bulgars' traditional religion.
368 CE: The Bulgars, under Kheylev Dhuroveti Haqaan, switch from raiding Rome to taking its land. Soon, the Bulgars have reached the Adriatic and Aegean Seas, devastating and humiliating Rome. All the blue-colored territory on this map is now under Bulgar control.
450 CE: The Huns return with a venegance, but Qalip Yagachni Haqaan repels Attila, forcing him to turn his attention on what remains of Rome. The Roman Empire collapses.
(point where this next RP begins)
482 CE: The incompetent Serkhrike Becersegui Haqaan causes the empire to lose the light blue regions on this map. His two sons, Buyuukuglu Becersegui and Khuuchik Becersegui, kill their father and divide the empire into two sections. The Qurultayin does not decide who his successor is, the first time in history this is the case; Buyuukuglu Becersegui declares himself Haqaan of Western Bulgaria(Qerbatuun Bolqaryca, the dark blue on this map); Khuuchik Becersegui declares himself Haqaan of Eastern Bulgaria(Sherdoguun Bolqaryca, the gray-blue on this map). They vow that the Qurultayins of each country will pick their heirs, and that the two Bulgarias shall remain "united as brother nations".

Eastern Bulgaria will become more influenced by the Slavs as time passes; Western Bulgaria by the Greeks and Romanians.

HISTORY OF BHARATA (hopefully this is realistic enough, but it's also still a work in progress)

~33 CE: Isho ha-Nasrath, a poor carpenter from the Roman province of Judaea who is said to be the Messiah by his followers, is crucified by the Roman government of the province. According to Bharatan Christian tradition, he tells the Apostles of his impending death, and declares Shemayon Kepah to be his successor.
64 CE: Shemayon Kepah is crucified by the Roman Empire; according to Bharatan Christianity, he passes the leadership of the followers of the followers of Isho to Sha'ul ha-Tarsa. Sha'ul begins the process of separating the Jewish tradition and the tradition of the followers of Isho, who have now become the Christian church.
67 CE: Sha'ul ha-Tarsa is beheaded by the Roman Emperor Nero. According to Bharatan Christianity, he passes leadership of the church to Thoma Shliha, who has gone to preach Isho's teachings to the Dravidian and Aryan inhabitants of Bharata. He calls for an end to India's caste system, which earns him the ire of the Tamil princes who control the area.
72 CE: The Tamil rulers attempt a mass slaughter of Thoma Shliha and his followers; Thoma and the Bharatan Christians flee north to the principalities of Bengal. There, they successfully convert several princes, who swear allegiance to Thoma. Thoma begins using the Bengali transliteration of his name, Tamasa, instead of the original Aramaic.
74 CE: Led by the prince Kornoshushangko Mahimanbijeta(who adopts the Christian name Jana-Pabitrasnana Mahimanbijeta), the Bengali princes under Tamasa conquer the entirety of Bengal.
75 CE: On his deathbed, Tamasa declares Jana-Pabitrasnana to be his successor, and declares that it will be his blood which will purify India. Jana-Pabitrasnana destroys the caste system in Bengal, and orders the armies of Bengal south towards the Tamil states of Kerala and Tamizh. The Tamil states are conquered, with Bengal now controlling most of India's coast. Jana-Pabitrasnana now focuses on converting the population of the country to Christianity. He orders a set of Scriptures compiled, and increasingly serves both as secular and spiritual head of the country.
400s CE: Jana-Pabitrasnana III orders the expansion of Bengali rule across the subcontinent; he conquers mass swathes of land to the west, and forces several eastern kingdoms to Christianize. Shortly before the end of the campaigns, he is severely wounded and rendered mentally incapable of rule. His brother, Pitara Pala, becomes regent, and focuses on administration- the Christianization of the kingdom, crushing various revolts, ensuring loyalty from the tributary kingdoms, and establishing a nationwide system of government. After Jana-Pabitrasnana III's death, he rules in his own right.

[Ruridova]

(new words added make this a work in progress)

the Bulgar Syriac alphabet

A - ܐ
B/V - ܒ
G - ܓ
D - ܕ
Y - ܗ
W/U - ܘ
Z- ܙ
H - ܚ
T - ܛ
I/J - ܝ
K - ܟ
L - ܠ
M - ܡ
N - ܢ
C - ܣ
S- ܤ
E - ܥ
O - ܨ
P - ܦ
Q- ܩ
R - ܪ
X - ܫ
F - ܬ

spaces are denoted with a straight line, |

(Bulgar Syriac is read right to left)

Sample Words:
Bulgar - ܒܨܠܩܐܪܗܝܢ(Bolqaryin)
Bulgaria - ܒܨܠܩܐܪܗܣܐ(Bolqaryca)

Khagan - ܚܐܩܐܐܢ(Haqaan)
Khatun - ܚܐܛܘܢ(Hatun)
Khan - ܚܐܐܢ(Haan)
Khatan - ܚܐܛܐܐܢ(Hataan)
Noyon - ܢܨܗܨܢ(Noyon)
Jinong - ܝܨܢܨܢ(Jonon)
Mirza - ܡܝܪܙܥ(Mirze)
Gonji - ܓܨܢܝܝ(Gonji)
Cherbi - ܣܚܥܪܒܝ(Cherbi)
Bey - ܒܥܗ(Bey)
Behi - ܒܥܗܝ(Beyi)
Khurultai - ܩܘܪܘܠܛܐܗܝܢ(Qurultayin)

Itmanism - ܝܛܡܐܢܗܨܠ(Itmanyol)
Ukhavcili - ܘܟܚܐܒܣܝܠܝ(Ukhavcili)
Qerembolor - ܩܥܪܥܡܒܨܠܨܪ(Qerembolor)
High Shaman - ܗܘܟܤܥܩ|ܒܨܓ(Yukseq Bog)

Manichaeism - ܡܥܢܝܗܨܠ(Meniyol)
World of Light - (Isiqin Dunyin)
Father of Light - (Etsegi Dunyin)
World of Darkness - (Isiqin Kharanliq)
Father of Darkness - (Etsegi Kharanliq)
First Creation - (Ilkh Yarangolkh)
Second Creation - (Khoyor Yarangolkh)
Third Creation - (Ucunav Yarangolkh)
Mani - ܡܥܢܝ(Meni)
Successor - (Zalgamhaf)
Apostle - (Hevari)
Bishop - (Yepisba)
Presbyter - (Kilise)

Priestly Caste - ܪܐܚܝܢܠܥܪ(Rahinler)
Fighting Caste - ܤܐܒܨܤܨܓܣܚ(Savosogch)
Working Caste - ܝܤܣܚܝܠܝܕ(Ischilid)

[Unicario]

"Emperor" in my languages:

- Saxon: Cysar
- High Teutonic: Kaiser
- Ripuarian: Kizar
- Thuringian: Kayzar
- Carinthian: Hahkhan
- Lombard: Kaisar
- Austrian: Cayzer
- Arabic: Badshah

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Rank of titles in Britannia

Cysar aut Britannia
Emperor of Britannia, highest monarch, elected by a Cynepunkt (Known in Bulgaria as Khurultai). Holds unlimited power over the state.
Female form: Cysarine

Princeps (prin-keps)
Prince of Britannia.

Princessin (prin-kessin)
Princess of Britannia.

Cynerich
King of Realm, a powerful magnate lord that rules over several feudal lords in Britannia. This expands over dukes and kings.

Arberich
Lord of Realm, a magnate lord that controls several estates or has several estate vassals. Equivalent to counts.

Classes

- Kaufermann (derived from OTL German "Kaufer")
Merchant class, traders.
- Bellatorimann (derived from Latin "bellator")
Soldier class, warriors.
- Deimann (derived from "dei")
Priest class, religious figures and priests.
- Arbeitmann (derived from OTL German's "arbeiter")
Labourer class, farmers, workers.
- Plebeiannen (derived from Latin "plebeian")
Peasant class, non-working, poor, lowest class.
- Manncyren (derived from latin "manumit")
Slave class

[Unicario]

"...the Venezuelans are very good at this sort of thing. I'm speaking to you from behind a pair of fake Ray-Bans, wearing a fake Armani jacket, carrying a fake Louis Vuitton bag, in which we find a fake iPad and a fake iPhone. And if we consult my fake Omega watch, we see that it's 2:35, probably, which means that it's time to pop into the fake Starbucks over there for a cup of fake coffee. It seems, then, that the expression 'copyright infringement' doesn't translate very well into Venezuelan Spanish."
- Jeremy Clarkson, host of the British TV show Top Gear

"If we were to have a war between the German Empire and Canada, I think France would probably win."
- Takeshi Kitano on Comedy Hour during the 2014 Czechoslovak War

"Yesterday, December Seventh, 1891, a date which will live in infamy, the Empire of Japan was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Confederate States of America. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us Meiji..."
- Emperor Alexander I addressing an emergency meeting of the Japanese Senate on December 8, 1891.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
- Incorrectly attributed to Thomas A. Hendricks, President of the CSA on December 8, 1891, real source unknown.

"You cannot invade the Japanese mainland. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
- Unknown Confederate military commander on Okinawa, 1892

"Liberty secured by submission to foreign will is not liberty at all."
- Kim Il-sung, 1964

"We welcome change and brotherhood, for we believe that freedom and brotherhood go together, that the advance of world peace can only strengthen the cause of human liberty. There is one sign the German government can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. Chancellor Kohl, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Holy Roman Empire and its allies of Hungary and Denmark, if you seek reconciliation, come here to this gate. Chancellor Kohl, open this gate. Chancellor Kohl, tear down this wall!
...
"As I looked out a moment ago from the town hall, looking towards Bratislava just across the Iron Curtain, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young German. It said, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Central Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand fraternity; it cannot withstand truth. This wall cannot withstand freedom."
- Ronald Reagan, 1987, speaking in the German town of Kittsee, near the Czechoslovak border

"We the People of the Empire of Japan, hold these truths to be self-evident, that all humans, of all creeds, races, colors and faiths are equal, and are invested by their creator with the capacity to great good, and great evil, and the capacity to know right from wrong, therefore their sovereign right to personal liberties shall never be infringed upon..."
- Preface to the Japanese Constitution, ratified 1789

"We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and ensure the blessings of liberty unto ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America."
- Preamble to the CS Constitution, ratified 1834

"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Oleksandr Kostiuk, 1903

"Death solves all problems. No man, no problem."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
-Stanislav Pavlenko

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament."
-Grigori Petrovsky, on western governments

"It is about time this "Axis of Evil" is dealt a good blow and is put back into their place."
-Horatius Agrioli, 1894

"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
-Benito Mussolini, 1901

"The socialist movement in Venezuela and the feeling of Pan-Latin-Americanism are inseparable."
-Che Guevara

"What the northerners do not understand is that Venezuela, and other south American nations do not apperecite being fearmongered into the same hegemonic empires from which we struggled to break free."
-Esteban Lopez, 1897

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
-Antoni Belinsky, to Stanislav Pavlenko on the Balkan Wars.

"Saying you do not believe in the use of force is like saying you do not believe in gravity."
-Antoni Belinsky, 1891

"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

"I am the hero of Africa."
-His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Amadi Nkruma, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the Roman Empire in Africa in General and Chad in Particular

"I am the only rightful Emperor of Asia. Asia shall be one house under my rule."
- Emperor Puyi after being declared Regent by the Kenpaitei, 1979

"The blood of the fascists shall water the gardens of Japan, and we shall forever relish in their defeat, for they shall not hold up against the triumph of the people."
- Empress Akane, 1979

"The final solution to the infidel question is extermination. I shall rid the world of all others but Indonesian Muslims. Every nation shall burn under the mighty boots of Indonesia, and we shall rid the world of Japan, of China, of Britain, of Germany and of the Confederacy, the Islamic World shall be enlightened under one house!"
- Admiral Wahyu of Indonesia, 1958

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man- when I could get it- and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? Intellect, that's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them."
- Canadian abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth in the Confederate city of Akron, 1851


"...the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the Confederate States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why did our forefathers stand to defend their rights against the British Empire? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy, 1962

"The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americaners- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by peace, proud of our ancient heritage- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
...
And so, my fellow Americaners: ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
- inaugural address of CS President John F. Kennedy, 1963

"But all these years later, the negro still is not free. All these years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. All these years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. All these years later, the negro is still languished in the corners of Americaner society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the Martyred Fathers of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the First Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the 'unalienable rights' of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds'.
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
...
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
...
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating 'for whites only'. We cannot be satisfied as long as a negro in New Orleans cannot vote and a negro in Chicago believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
...
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Americaner dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to my home with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
...
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And so, let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Sonora. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New Mexico. Let freedom ring from the heightening Appalachians of Virginia. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Utah. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual:
Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last!"
- civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., in Washington, 1963

Five score and eighteen years ago, the Martyred Fathers dreamt of a new nation on this continent, conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Two score and seventeen years ago, the Victorious Fathers made this into a reality.
Now the world is engaged in a great world war, testing whether that nation- or any nation so conceived and so dedicated- can long endure. We meet near to the battlefields of all three of the great wars this nation has faced, part of a continent that has itself become a battlefield. We have come here to dedicate a ground once owned by one of our great leaders, near where another great leader of ours gave his life in the hope that his nation would live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate or consecrate this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled for our nation, have consecrated it, far beyond our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here- but it can never forget what has been done by those who will rest here. It is for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who have fought for our country have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave their lives- that we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
- President Thomas Hendricks at the dedication of Arlington National Cemetery, 1891

"Today is truly a day of victory. A victory for not only the Russian people but a victory in the name of peace at last. I only wish Trotsky and Belinsky had lived to see this."
-Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow after the overthrow of the Republic by the communists, 1991.

"Our free peoples stand surrounded by the empires of fear and blood, empires that wish for us to be their slaves. To the east, there is Russia, looking to expand west; to the west, the Germans, looking to expand east; to the south, Rum, looking to expand north. If we remain divided, then we remain weak, we remain targets for those who would conquer us.
We will not permit this. The nations of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltic Union, and Finland-Estonia are entitled to sovereignty and liberty, and we will not allow these to be stolen from us. We have fought long and hard for what is rightfully ours, and we will not abandon these hard-fought rights. We will not be intimidated, nor will we be harassed, nor will we be oppressed. We will stand before those who seek our destruction and deny them. We will stand before Death, before Slavery, before Tyranny, and we will tell them, 'not today and not ever'. We will defy evil, and will survive in spite of it all.
The Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, Polish, Baltic, and Finnish-Estonian people will never again be shackled or conquered. From this day forth, we shall stand united, as friends. From this day forward, we shall protect each other from all threats, foreign and domestic, to guarantee our mutual liberty, security, and prosperity. From this day forth, we are united as one in a great alliance, and will at all times cooperate with each other and strive together. From this day on we will stand beside each other as brothers, and we will do all that is necessary for the continued sovereignty and liberty of all our peoples."
- excerpt from the Intermarian Treaty, 1892

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the Intermarians and the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
There are some who say that Germany is a free, democratic, peaceful country.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, that we should be working with the Germans.
Let them come to Bratislava.
And there are even a few who say that, while Germany has its flaws, they have been overblown by the Intermarium.
Let them come to Bratislava."
- Czechoslovak President Aleksandr Dubček, referencing the fact that the Iron Curtain was visible from the city of Bratislava

"There is no such thing as the nation. There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand this soon, then there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
- attributed to Fahd al-Massoum, first Grand Mufti of Mauritania

"We are a nation of differences, and that cannot be denied. But that will never be our weakness. It will always be our strength. We all know this, in our hearts. We will survive the attacks from those who would force us to fight our brothers and sisters, and we will emerge more unified than ever before. That is who we are. That is what we are built upon. That is what we stand for. That is how we live."
- Yugoslavia's King Dragomir, 2000, following the Yugoslav Wars

"Whatever our beliefs, we must cherish three things above all: cooperation, tolerance, and righteousness. For these three values, there is no substitute."
- Hayim ben Tziyon, the Zionist Papers

"I want there to be two mottos on this coat of arms you have given to me: above the shield, the words veritas vos liberabit, the truth will set you free, and below the shield, the words calamus gladio fortior, the pen is mightier than the sword. These are the words that I have lived by, and I hope those who come after me shall live by them as well."
- Georg von Licht, after being told that the Emperor of Germany was allowing the von Licht family a coat of arms, 1837

"My husband considered himself Chinese. Though he had long since been truly Japanese, his mother, grandmother, and great grandfather all being Japanese, he still called himself Chinese. The court of Manchukuo resembled something out of an old kabuki theatre depiction of a Chinese court in the time before Daoguang... and yet, Puyi relished in every minute. He considered himself more and more Chinese, despite the fact that the very nation he was warring against through his Empire of Manchukuo was the nation he claimed to be saving from corruption. I had long loathed what he was doing, but I was powerless to stop it by that point. When the Kwangtung officers told us we were evacuating Harbin for a region further north in Manchuria, I refused to go, and fled southwest. I met my family again, my darling mother, and I returned to Japan shortly afterwards, and divorced him, and we never spoke again."
- Princess Zheng Aisin-Gioro, wife of Emperor Puyi (1928-1938), 1989

"If I ever see that rat Puyi again, I will strangle him."
- Empress Dowager Kyasarin, 1980

"By order of the National Preservation Council, and transitional Emperor of the Ethiopian nation, Qing, you, Puyi, dishonorable ronin, expelled from the Aisin-Gioro clan for treasonous actions against your own blood, waging a war for several years in Manchuria, claiming to be the true Son of Heaven in Manchuria, the rightful Chinese Emperor. Expelled from the Yamato clan for your attempts to unseat Akane, Esteemed Empress of the Japanese Empire. The dishonorable one, Puyi, is also charged with seditious acts against Ethiopia, consorting with terrorists, and bypassing the rule of parliament without constitutional right. You are hereby sentenced by this court to death..."
- General Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, 1983

"Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men, it is the music of a nation that will never slumber again,
When the beating of our hearts echoes the roaring of the drums,
A nation shall be reborn when tomorrow comes!"
- Rallying cry of the Juche rebels, 1979, taken from Die Elenden's play form.

"I have graduated from the Georg von Licht School of Book-Writing."
- Rumite author Ludwig Eichemann, following the success of his book Along the Ehre

"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
Say to me,
'Eat in the kitchen,'
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America."
- I, Too, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee

"Oh, let America be America again-
The land that never has been yet-
And yet must be- the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine- the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

Oh, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath-
America will be!"
- excerpt from Let America be America Again, by Frederick Lee

"Our nations are remarkable in how similar they truly are to each other. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are martyrs for the Confederate cause, and fathers of the Japanese cause. My daughter Ranko stood along-side Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and walked on the surface of the moon with them. The Constitution that binds the Japanese state, begins with the same words that rang true in Philadelphia almost 200 years ago. We the People. Here stands the testament that despite differences, hatred, rivalry and imperial ambition, two nations can reconcile themselves. Here, where several hundred Japanese and American sailors gave their life, where an island was ravaged by war, and the Great War began in the Pacific, we commemorate the peace that has endured now for fifty years, and it is a blessing from whichever God you praise, that we have endured. The Confederacy and Japan should be brothers, not enemies."
- Emperor Kyasarin's speech at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the 50th Anniversary of the Day of Infamy.

"The French Republic was not evil, nor was it a mistake, nor was it decadent or corrupt. It was ran by incompetence, and it will never return, for it has never worked for the French people."
- Ferdinand Foch, 1898

"Before us is none but Brennus, enemy of Rome, and destroyer of civilization. It is this brute and others like him that sought to drive this world back into the dark ages of eternal war. I make no further statement today other than 'Non auro, sed ferro, recuperanda est patria'."
-Benito Mussolini, at the execution of Gaius leFevre

"LeFevre, as distasteful as he was in life, now joins the ranks of those who have been killed for excersizing their right to free speech."
- Gavriil fon Likht, following the murder of Gaius leFevre

"Jefferson told us of the door of liberty; Washington set out to find it; Davis showed us to it; Lee unlocked it; Hendricks opened it; Kennedy led us through."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1964

"Until this moment, Mr. Shenes, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Ariel Nissim is a young man who went to Harvard University's law school and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us. Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with my firm. It is true that he will continue to be with my firm. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentle man but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me."

"May I say that Mr. Kohen talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting; he has been baiting Mr. Efrayim here for hours, requesting that Mr. Efrayim, before sundown, get out of any department of government anyone who is serving the Netanyahist cause. I just give this man’s record, and I want to say, Mr. Kohen, that it has been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944-"

"Mr. Shenes, may we not drop this? We know he had some college friends among the Netanyahists, and Imamuel Efrayim nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Efrayim. I meant to do you no personal injury, and if I did, Mr. Efrayim, I beg your pardon."

"I would like to finish this-"

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, sir."

"Mr. Kohen, I know it-"

"All right, sir, you've done enough... God Almighty, have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
- argument between defense lawyer Eliyahu Kohen and Knesset member Yehoshua Shenes during the 1953 Nuremberg Trials, in which various ZWC members were accused of being Netanyahists, with those found guilty sent to Rum to be tried as criminals; defense legal assistant Ariel Nissim and Knesset member Imanuel Efrayim, both present at the trials, are also mentioned in the conversation

"I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute- he pets his fancies-
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, though law be clear as crystal,
Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces."
- Confederate poet Frederick Lee, Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
- excerpt from the 1st Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson

"Why didn't you beat the Czechoslovaks in sixty days, like you said you would?"

"Because we found we actually had to fight a skilled and honorable enemy on the Czechoslovak front."
- German General Helmuth von Moltke "the Younger" in conversation with French-German author Alaric Bisser, 1891

"Peace, Land and Bread is our absolute goal, for every man, woman and child in France."
- Ferdinand Foch, December 25, 1897

"...Shame upon you men who desecrate our ancestor's memory in the name of your Lichtian beliefs. Your attempts to censor media critical of your state has proved that indeed, you understand nothing of our ancestor's labors for freedom. Both here in Japan, and in your country."
- Thomas Jefferson III, 1897, in response to the Confederate Congress trying to ban Antoni Belinsky's book.

"But life has a way of reminding you of big things through small incidents. Once, back before the Reconciliation, and during my time as Foreign Minister in the 1940s, I attended a summit in Washington D.C. I decided to break off from the entourage one afternoon to visit the shops near the Mall, where the great statues to the Martyred and Victorious Fathers stand.

Even though our visit was a surprise, every Americaner there immediately recognized us, and called out my name and reached for my hand. I was just about swept away by the warmth - you could almost feel the possibilities in all that joy. But within seconds, an FBI detail pushed their way toward me and began pushing and shoving the people in the crowd. It was an interesting moment. It reminded me that while the man on the street in the Confederate States had yearned for peace and brotherhood, the Government was still - and those who run it were still reluctant to reach out their hand - and that means we and they view such issues as freedom and human rights very differently, and that still has not changed now, in 1975. 'Keep Up Our Guard', is something we must practice."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"It was back in the early 1960s, at the height of the Indonesian War, and the sailor was hard at work on the carrier Sangoshima, which was patrolling the South China Sea. The sailor, like most Japanese servicemen, was young, smart and fiercely observant. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat - and crammed inside were refugees from Indonesia hoping to get to Japan. The Sangoshima sent a small launch to bring them to the ship, and safety. As the refugees made their way through the choppy seas, one spied the sailor on deck, and stood up and called out to him. He yelled, "Hello, Japanese sailor - Hello, Freedom Man."
- Kim Il-sung's final address to Japan as PM, 1975

"Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll go down to Moscow myself and make you feel regret for even being born."
-Antoni Belinsky to Alexander Kerensky, 1954

"I do not do things part-way. I finish every job handed before me, and believe me, I shall do my job well."
- Empress Kyasarin of Japan to her Geisha trainer, 1925

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win... hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Pray for a new age
Pray for liberation!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

Pray for the old state
Pray for a transformation!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

History will show
That good's progress is slow.
When we win,
We win in inches.

The people, deaf,
Bribed into silence,
Will need awakening
Or else no one will listen!

Liberty, equality, fraternity!

I know where I stand
I know we fight for our land-
Not the state,
But the land.

Know I'm not kneeling
To any evil man-
I stand up
Like heroes before.

Liberty, equality, fraternity!

Pray for a new age
Pray for assassination!
I can help, see,
To help others believe.

Traitors rule, but
I don't believe those in evil's lair,
Who call it sin
To have a differing opinion.

Know that I'm a free man
And I won't leave where I stand-
Against affronts
To god and country

Pray for the old state
Pray for revolution!
I can help, see,
To help others believe."
- anonymous author; first appeared in a Mulhouse/Mülhausen newspaper in 1907, presumably written by an ethnic Frenchman living in Germany about fascist France

"Her Majesty proved that a monarch must be responsible to it's people, and must sacrifice their own luxuries and lavish life so that democracy may not perish."
- Unknown soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, c. 1963

"John Kennedy was the first Americaner to die in this war, and if I may be so honest, he will not be the last. He is with God now, and his death shall be the means to bring freedom to one of the darkest regions of the world."
- Kim Il-sung, November 25, 1963

"I believe our old enemy, Thomas Hendricks, said it best. I paraphrase. Only through sacrifice and dedication can we ensure that any nation dedicated to democracy may long endure, that democracy shall never perish from this earth."
- Empress Catherine, 1964

"I remember a poetic moment. After we took the ruins of Batavia, I remember Empress Catherine hoisting the flag of Japan over the parliamentary house. The sight was magnanimous, if I may say so. The photo of the sun behind her was what I saw, and it was even stronger in person, than it was on a photograph. The crowd swelled into choruses of Umi Yukaba, but she silenced them and said, 'This is your victory, my soldiers. This was your triumph.'... all of us were floored at that. She was a hero, but she did not accept such honors, she gave that to her soldiers."
- Lt. Junichi Smith, recalling the Fall of Batavia in his memoirs.

"If I die for the Empire, it will not be a regret to me, for I know that I have died so that my daughters may be free, and my ancestor's spirits may rest peacefully. I do not fear death -- I shall conquer it."
- Empress Catherine on the eve of the Battle of Batavia

[United Marxist Nations]

Uni and Boji invited me.

NS nation: United Marxist Nations
Nation you wish to take: The Celestial Empire of Tibet (I will explain a little below) (de jure); Tibetan National Liberation Army (de facto)
Leader: The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (de jure absolute monarch), Provisional Prime Minister Samdup (de facto civil leader), Generalissimo Gyaltsen (de facto military leader)
Colonies(where applicable): (not applicable)
Population: 15 million

I wouldn't start out as an independent country, but nationalists declare independence under a provisional government after storming the administrative building in Lhasa. The population is divided on the status of the provisional gov't.

[Ruridova]

Handy Reference List:
Passage and Repeal of Jim Crow Laws in the CSA

Key:
No Jim Crow Laws Passed
Jim Crow Laws Passed, Repealed Before Brown v. Board in 1953
Jim Crow Laws Passed, Repealed Between Brown v. Board & Civil Rights Act
Jim Crow Laws Passed, Nullified by Civil Rights Act in 1964

List:
State Name, year passed - year repealed
Hawaii, n/a - n/a
California, n/a - n/a
Baja California, n/a - n/a
Nevada, n/a - n/a
Utah, n/a - n/a
New Mexico, 1893 - 1944
Arizona, 1894 - 1941
Sonora, 1892 - 1942
Sinaloa, 1893 - 1939
Kansas, 1892 - 1952
Oklahoma, 1895 - 1956
Texas, 1893 - 1964
Minnesota, n/a - n/a
Iowa, n/a - n/a
Missouri, 1894 - 1960
Arkansas, 1893 - 1964
Louisiana, 1892 - 1964
Wisconsin, n/a - n/a
Illinois, n/a - n/a
Indiana, n/a - n/a
Michigan, n/a - n/a
Ohio, n/a - n/a
Kentucky, 1897 - 1954
Tennessee, 1896 - 1964
Mississippi, 1891 - 1964
Alabama, 1891 - 1964
Delaware, 1894 - 1947
Maryland, 1893 - 1953
Virginia, 1892 - 1964
North Carolina, 1892 - 1964
South Carolina, 1891 - 1964
Georgia, 1891 - 1964
Florida, 1896 - 1959
Yucatan, 1895 - 1935
Campeche, 1895 - 1937
Quintana Roo, 1896 - 1936
Cuba, 1893 - 1948
Puerto Rico, 1897 - 1947
The Bahamas, 1892 - 1954
District of Columbia, 1899 - 1931
The Turks & Caicos, 1893 - 1955
CS Virgin Islands, n/a - n/a

[Shrillland]

Uni and Boji invited me.

NS nation: United Marxist Nations
Nation you wish to take: The Celestial Empire of Tibet (I will explain a little below) (de jure); Tibetan National Liberation Army (de facto)
Leader: The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (de jure absolute monarch), Provisional Prime Minister Samdup (de facto civil leader), Generalissimo Gyaltsen (de facto military leader)
Colonies(where applicable): (not applicable)
Population: 15 million

I wouldn't start out as an independent country, but nationalists declare independence under a provisional government after storming the administrative building in Lhasa. The population is divided on the status of the provisional gov't.

Accepted.

[Unicario]

"I come here today to address this fine assembly of men, not as a foreign author, or as a wealthy man, but as an African. Yes, an African. I am not born of the same skin tone, or ethnic groups as you, but I have made my life here on this continent, and I have also seen thousands of people, of all walks of life, come to this continent with good intentions, to find a new life. Dutch settlers entering Pretoria are searching for a new life to live, free of whatever ill social status they may be living in. I see Japanese settlers entering Mogadishu and Taiyoshi, with furrowed brow, prepared to search for their own wealth. While imperialism is a detestable ideology, and one day, all nations imposing their will on others will leave, we must come to see these new settlers into Africa as brothers -- for one day, our great-grandchildren will walk together and call Africa, not the Dark Continent, as many Europeans have put it, but as the Land of Opportunity, Prosperity and Diversity. We can create a new future today, and we can create an Africa that all generations will envy, and it will begin with the work we do, with great diligence.

Jẹ ki a gba lati sise, arakunrin mi. (Let us get to work, my brothers)."
- Ferdinand Eichemann, addressing the Nigerian parliament, 1898

[United Marxist Nations]

Since Luz is on leave, I'm guessing we wait to have the war until he gets back. We could have an IC reason for the delay, like having to mobilize.

[Unicario]

Since Luz is on leave, I'm guessing we wait to have the war until he gets back. We could have an IC reason for the delay, like having to mobilize.

Technically I'm subbing China for the immediate future, so IDK.

[United Marxist Nations]

Since Luz is on leave, I'm guessing we wait to have the war until he gets back. We could have an IC reason for the delay, like having to mobilize.

Technically I'm subbing China for the immediate future, so IDK.

Yeah, but that could present a conflict of interest of some kind.