"...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
"Japan and the CSA are a pair of young children, arguing who their father would have loved more if he wasn't dead."
- Chancellor Helmut Kohl, on December 7, 1991
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong, Confederate astronaut and first man on the moon
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
- Edgar Mitchell, Confederate astronaut
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Japanese astronomer Carl Sagan, referencing a photograph taken by the CSA's Voyager 1 probe
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
- Mother to Son, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee
"I know I am
'the Negro Problem'
being wined and dined,
answering the usual questions
that come to others' mind
which seeks demurely
to probe in polite way
the why and wherewithal
of the dark, dim CSA
wondering how things got this way
in current democratic night,
murmuring gently
over fraises du bois,
'I'm ashamed they stand with us at times.'
The lobster is delicious,
the wine divine,
and center of attention
at the damask table, mine.
to be a Problem in
Brooklyn, Japan, at eight
is not so bad.
Solutions to the problem,
of course, wait."
- Dinner Guest: Me by Confederate poet Frederick Lee, mocking Japan's criticisms of the CSA as unconstructive
"If you think the Confederate States is the epitome of democracy in the world, you do not know what democracy is."
- Empress Dowager Catherine, 1997
"Confederate revisionists erase the truth -- that their nation was founded in opposition to abolition of slavery.
That they held slavery to their hearts long after the civilized world abolished it, and then, by granting sufferage to women and abolition, they believe that has exonerated them.
That in many provinces, the right to vote for minorities were miniscule at best, until long after hatred and violence left the hearts of most good peoples.
The Confederacy tries to make itself appear beautiful to the world, a bastion of freedom, and the last vanguard against European imperialist,
However, we South Americans are not fooled by their lies. They are serpents in the grass, poised to bite down and poison our continent with their own imperialist doctrine."
- Ernesto Guevara, Sr. at a summit of the Union of South American Nations, 1937
"There's a line from one of Frederick Lee's poems that I like to keep in mind when dealing with my opponents: 'call me any ugly name you choose- the steel of freedom does not stain.'"
- President John F. Kennedy in conversation with then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson, 1963
"Tawantisuyu and Venezuela hate us with a passion, actually. They hate us because there was one time in the 1800s where we sent unhappy letters to them saying that it would be a bad idea to invade Brazil and annex most of its land for no reason, and then created an international organization where they had as much power as us in the interests of preventing wars in the Americas. That's the incessant interference that they go on and on and on about. That's the big fuss. Those are their grievances. They've never forgiven us for a pair of letters we sent them and a peacekeeping group they joined."
- President Ronald Reagan, 1988
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America!"
- Inaugural address of Confederate President Bill Clinton, 1994
"Waiting to see if Prime Minister Adams has the same harsh words for Japan that he did for the CSA."
"If he doesn't call Japan a massive disgrace to the Martyred Fathers, it doesn't count."
- part of a Twitter conversation between Confederate senators Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren
"The path to reconciliation and friendship between the CSA and the South American nations can only begin once they fully understand the reason why we no longer wished to be part of the OAS. It has nothing to do with Brazil, because even if the OAS were to act, Venezuela, Tawantisuyu and Guyane would have attacked regardless. No, the true reason the divide exists is because the South Americans were sick of being ruled over by the white man in the north by use of fearmongering and threats of violent attack. Relations are only worsened by Confederate ignorance to these facts, and I doubt they will understand."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara Jr, President of Venezuela, 1973
- 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
"Japan and the CSA are a pair of young children, arguing who their father would have loved more if he wasn't dead."
- Chancellor Helmut Kohl, on December 7, 1991
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
- Neil Armstrong, Confederate astronaut and first man on the moon
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
- Edgar Mitchell, Confederate astronaut
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Japanese astronomer Carl Sagan, referencing a photograph taken by the CSA's Voyager 1 probe
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
- Mother to Son, by Confederate poet Frederick Lee
"I know I am
'the Negro Problem'
being wined and dined,
answering the usual questions
that come to others' mind
which seeks demurely
to probe in polite way
the why and wherewithal
of the dark, dim CSA
wondering how things got this way
in current democratic night,
murmuring gently
over fraises du bois,
'I'm ashamed they stand with us at times.'
The lobster is delicious,
the wine divine,
and center of attention
at the damask table, mine.
to be a Problem in
Brooklyn, Japan, at eight
is not so bad.
Solutions to the problem,
of course, wait."
- Dinner Guest: Me by Confederate poet Frederick Lee, mocking Japan's criticisms of the CSA as unconstructive
"If you think the Confederate States is the epitome of democracy in the world, you do not know what democracy is."
- Empress Dowager Catherine, 1997
"Confederate revisionists erase the truth -- that their nation was founded in opposition to abolition of slavery.
That they held slavery to their hearts long after the civilized world abolished it, and then, by granting sufferage to women and abolition, they believe that has exonerated them.
That in many provinces, the right to vote for minorities were miniscule at best, until long after hatred and violence left the hearts of most good peoples.
The Confederacy tries to make itself appear beautiful to the world, a bastion of freedom, and the last vanguard against European imperialist,
However, we South Americans are not fooled by their lies. They are serpents in the grass, poised to bite down and poison our continent with their own imperialist doctrine."
- Ernesto Guevara, Sr. at a summit of the Union of South American Nations, 1937
"There's a line from one of Frederick Lee's poems that I like to keep in mind when dealing with my opponents: 'call me any ugly name you choose- the steel of freedom does not stain.'"
- President John F. Kennedy in conversation with then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson, 1963
"Tawantisuyu and Venezuela hate us with a passion, actually. They hate us because there was one time in the 1800s where we sent unhappy letters to them saying that it would be a bad idea to invade Brazil and annex most of its land for no reason, and then created an international organization where they had as much power as us in the interests of preventing wars in the Americas. That's the incessant interference that they go on and on and on about. That's the big fuss. Those are their grievances. They've never forgiven us for a pair of letters we sent them and a peacekeeping group they joined."
- President Ronald Reagan, 1988
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America!"
- Inaugural address of Confederate President Bill Clinton, 1994
"Waiting to see if Prime Minister Adams has the same harsh words for Japan that he did for the CSA."
"If he doesn't call Japan a massive disgrace to the Martyred Fathers, it doesn't count."
- part of a Twitter conversation between Confederate senators Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren
"The path to reconciliation and friendship between the CSA and the South American nations can only begin once they fully understand the reason why we no longer wished to be part of the OAS. It has nothing to do with Brazil, because even if the OAS were to act, Venezuela, Tawantisuyu and Guyane would have attacked regardless. No, the true reason the divide exists is because the South Americans were sick of being ruled over by the white man in the north by use of fearmongering and threats of violent attack. Relations are only worsened by Confederate ignorance to these facts, and I doubt they will understand."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara Jr, President of Venezuela, 1973
