Quotes of people in your nation MK.II

[Saurisisia]

"While technology continues to advance every waking day, there will always be a need for SAPINT. For technology isn't perfect and there is always a chance of failure, therefore we maintain a body of sapient agents meant to go in and investigate their objectives first hand and conduct espionage the old-fashioned way."
~ [Redacted], high-ranking member of the CIGC

[Bojikami]

"Cigarettes?"

"Oh, no thank you I don't smoke."

"Blindfold?"

"No thank you, no."

"Slowotny!" (the firing squad snaps to attention) "Grydenka..." (they raise their rifles) "Verschnitzen."

"Nyet! Nyet! Nyet!"

"A telegram? From the Anthograd! The Central Committee! It says...'Carry on with the execution'." "Verschnitzen..." (The squad raise their rifles)

*gunshots*

"How could you miss?"

"Um... He moved."
-A Bojikamiian execution, 1973

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[Estainia]

I feel there's a reference in there, it supplied lulz regardless.

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"What we did to Ruthenia can never be compared to what the Eslovaks have done to the Amethians, or what the Belkans have done to the Darcsen. Never did we seek the abolition of the Ruthenian race, never did we seek them all to die to the last child. Do not compare us to monsters with nice faces. Those killed in Ruthenia were regrettable, as all lost in war are; but never, never did we attempt to genocide the Rysun people." - Sir Alexander Yordanov

[Annastania]

"We prayed, all through those terrible days for America to come and save us and America never came." - President Bojan Petrovic when asked why he held the United States at arms length; he was referring to the Annstanian Civil War which raged on for more than a decade while the world watched to see who the winner was for the vast majority, only stepping in at the very end when those who were 'winning' began the systematic extermination of all those not of Serb descent.

[Bereia]

"Wait, let me make sure I've got this. This guy you don't know breaks into your home, in the middle of the night. You're there, and so are your wife and children. You wake up and find him just rummaging around in your living room, presumably looking for valuables of yours which he can carry off and sell. Upon seeing you, he attacks you. He has a knife, and so we can safely assume his intention wasn't to give you a hug. You struggle with him, during which time he is slashed with the knife he attacked you with, before he is knocked unconscious. The police arrive and haul him down to the station to spend the night there. Days later, he sues you for the slash wound he suffered while attacking you in your own home...and he wins the case. Does that sound right?"

"It doesn't sound right, no, but it does sound like what happened."

"No wonder you moved here. Welcome home, brother. I think you'll like it here."

-- C.I.S. official speaking to Sigfrido Doumani, immigrant & newly-sworn Citizen, after Doumani has taken the Oath of Citizenship.

[Ruridova]

"Recently something happened, something that should not be politicized. I will politicize it anyways; that is my job.
Chief Petty Officer Nicholas Kristoffersen was a sniper in the Terranovan navy. He did a fantastic job in the name of duty, liberty, country. He fought for justice and freedom, and did what he had to do to ensure that the lives of people not just at home but around the world were saved. He wrote a book, entitled Terranovan Sniper, on the subject. Kristoffersen was a strong man, a courageous man, a brave man, a great man. Returning from service he helped soldiers with PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder.
He died far too young, like many soldiers do, but not on tour. He was killed at home, by a man with a gun.
There is no doubt that Kristoffersen was the anti-gun control crowd's 'good guy with a gun'. This was a man who served his country dutifully and then moved to serve his fellow man. He died armed, at a shooting range. Next to him was one of his friends, also a veteran, also armed, and also dead by the end of the day. Both of these men were not only armed but were soldiers with much experience; Kristoffersen, as stated, was an exceptional sniper. They had weapons, they knew how to use them. They were the ideal good guys with guns: dedicated soldiers and do-gooders. Yet both were shot and killed by a bad guy with a gun, because no one had tried to prevent the bad guy from getting a gun, no controls or regulations.
Several years before a man by the name of Major Nidal Assad opened fire on several people in Fort Reagan base in the Terranovan state of Jacinto. We're not talking about a place where guns are forbidden in Terranova, like a school or hospital. This was a functioning, staffed, UST military base. And yet at least a dozen people died. Where were the good guys with guns? In one case dead, in the other case missing. We could prevent this by placing them everywhere, yes, but I don't much fancy anything with that much resemblance to a police state. And at that point you are relying on guys who may not be as good, or as trained, as it seems. A large Terranovan trial recently ended, the accused being accused of killing a man pre-emptively, or at least unnecessarily.
They say that had gun control in Terranova been even laxer, cases like Columbia High School, Breezy Point Elementary, the 2011 Sweetwater theater shootings, the two Roanoke Tech shootings, the Helgenaktig Shootings here in Ruridova, could have been stopped. I say that if that is the case, let the information on how to make bombs at home be given to everyone, let bad guys with bombs be stopped by good guys with bombs. Solve your terrorism problems- surely the Roxbury Marathon bombing would not have occurred had everyone been carrying pipe bombs. Surely the Unabomber would not have tried his campaign of terror. Allowing everyone to make and buy and carry bombs, whether home-made or military, is just as ridiculous as saying that letting everybody have a gun will help. Letting everyone have a gun will just ensure that every criminal will be armed, that vigilantes will destroy the purpose of law enforcement and justice departments and court systems. Just as many people will needlessly die. And people will continue to die until those buffoons who don't believe in checking to see if you're about to give an Uzi to a paroled felon realize that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
In Terranova, lack of gun control has repeatedly failed, whereas in Ruridova and Mateporea and Stadacona-Ungave and Ashmoria it has succeeded, by leaps and bounds. The Helgenaktig shooting made international news because nowadays, in Ruridova, mass shootings and gun crimes are a rarity. In Terranova such things make the news after the 24-hour news networks decide which of the day's shootings or murders will best allow them to fill empty space in their cycle. In Ruridova, there have been five mass shootings since 1983. In Mateporea, a gun control bill cut mass shootings while a bill stating that one needed to explain why you needed it(self-defense does not count, as many criminals have used firearms as self-defense against law enforcement officers) cut gun crime down by nearly half? In Ashmoria, the passage of gun control was matched by a steep decline in gun violence and crime, with no corresponding rises in non-gun violence or non-gun crime. In Stadacona-Ungave there was little rise of a black market gun industry, and what little there was was done away with, those responsible thrown in jail. In Terranova murders are almost daily, of men, women, and children, because anyone can buy a gun, and because an armed hero is not always there. It has been proven to work, to allow the good guys guns while preventing bad guys from ever getting them in the first place, covering both bases so to speak. And at the same time we are not restricting the right of good, honest, upstanding, hardworking men and women of their rights to a firearm, much less denying them.
So I end my speech with a cry across the aisle, a cry echoed by fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, daughters and sons. How many more?
How many more must die before the failure of lax gun laws is evident?
How many more must live in fear before a system that, while maybe imperfect at times, is far more effective than the old way, is in place?
How many more people must weep over the graves of family and friends, slain by firearms, before it is realized that it is even better to ensure that the good guy does not even have to use his gun because the bad guy has none?
How many more times must the leadership of the Terranovan Firearms Association realize that 92% of Terranovans, 84% of Republicans, and 79% of TFA members support some basic common sense gun control legislation, while only 54% of UST Senators do, thanks to some backroom lobbying? That once it's own president, Bruce duBois, supported background checks, before flip-flopping?
How many more before it is realized that I should not just be able to walk into a superstore and buy a pistol(I bought one just down the street, in fact- of Ruridovan manufacture, oddly enough- and don't worry I've been trained by a dozen professionals and two dozen enthusiasts), no questions asked?
That is my question, my cry, my message. How many more?"
- fmr. Prime Minister Madeleine l'Petain, in mid-2013, while visiting Terranova.

"Prime Minister, everyone expects you to strike a decisive blow and get rid of greedy money grubbers, thugs who harm innocent people, and terrorists who take this nation hostage, rendering it ineffective!"

"But abolishing Parliament would be illegal, right?"
- conversation between a Ruridovan bureaucrat and Prime Minister Alain Spenser

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

"I- I'll tell you what sep- *hic* seperrrates us from animals. It's pollution. Yeah. Tell me the last time you- *hic* you saw an animal utterly ruin hir naturrral environment to the point where only microbes can still live there. Tell me the last time an an- an- animal blocked out the sun with aerial run off from the production of vanity items. Hah. Bet you never thought of that one. All those otherrrr animals hav- have families, some have empathy and shit like that. They've got societies and wars and states. But I've never, and I me- *hic* mean never have seen an animal make a river light on fire from industrial run off. Pol- Polyution is what makes us human." - Councilperson Xanders while exceedingly intoxicated

[Greater Americana]

"Where you say 'regulation' I hear 'Forward for the State', where you say 'law' I hear 'witch-hunts', where you say 'order' I hear 'tyranny'. I do not live in Oceania, I will never allow it to exist here, either." - Nicholas Pasternak, Senator

[Gorgashia]

"As George Orwell said; 'That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.' So, seeing as this is a participatory democracy, I say we make carrying firearms mandatory in order to participate in the municipal assemblies!"

- Jonathan Cornwal, Soviet orator. Trolling.

[Corenea]

"An armed civilian is an essential piece to prevent a nation falling to tyranny"
-Penny LaMarco, President of the National Firearm Association

[Estainia]

"The ideal nation changes with the idealist in question." - 2003

"I have said it before and will say it again; I adamantly am a proponent of arming the peasantry, so that they may take the title citizenry from your entrenched hands at the point of their bayonets." - Cornelius Maximilian, 1892

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"I will not go out laying in bed a sick an enfeebled old man... I refuse. I will meet Athena on my terms, not hers." - Sir Alexander Yordanov

[The Independent Isle of Wight]

"I have no real vested interests in whether or not thousands of Americans die unnecessarily. What about all those inner-city morticians who rely on giving guns to people who have no real claim to needing one, don't they have a right to earn a living?"

-Ludwig Van Whitesnake, entrepreneur

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"I know that you shouldn't blame the foot-soldiers for the ridiculous stupidity of the war that they are forced to fight... But if they live in a country that hasn't fought in a noble war since... I don't know... Korea..? No... Even that was an absolute fuck-up... And has fought in just about every stupid war available since... What did they think they were signing up for?"

-The Great Long-Conk, quite drunk

[Gorgashia]

"The thing that held the spear is the same thing holding the rifle; courage."

- Fredrick Johnson, Marshal of the Protectorate. On soldiers.

[Bereia]

"Ask yourself, am I insane for wanting to own a firearm, or are you insane for thinking such a thing makes no sense?"

"If some punk breaks into my house in the middle of the night, I need to "understand" him about as well as I "understand" the targets at the range."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

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"The people of this nation do not own arms so that they might hunt wild animals, thought in days gone by that was an added benefit. They own arms for the purpose of self-defense."

-- President J. Calvin Holbrook.

[Estainia]

"Humanity... The one thing I irrefutably like about humanity is simple. When forced between surrendering their planet and dying? They will gladly die; because this is their world and the rules are simple. Their world; or none. The ICBMs will fly shortly after." - Tiberius Maximilian

"I have seen it; men at their darkest, their basest, their most vile. I have seen man as an animal, fearsome and brutal; savage and a force of instinct and nature, logic and intelligence be damned. I have seen the eyes of man when he has committed the most horrible of atrocities and I have seen how they look glad that these things have been done. I have seen man; and it is a terrible, evil sight that should be for the betterment of all, erased." - Tamid Iman, Polymath

[EternalNight]

"The Universe is a marvelous place, filled with wonders and terrors. I shall remember it fondly when it is gone."-- Midnight of the First Triune

[Xekliv]

"My god has a hammer. Your god was nailed to a cross. Do the math."

-- Religious xeklivian to a religious human

[Annastania]

"My god has a hammer. Your god was nailed to a cross. Do the math."

-- Religious xeklivian to a religious human

"So your God is Thor?" - Random Annastanian

[Lipnitia]

"When you wake, think about being a man. Being mature and having the responsibility of being of the wisest spieces on this planet. Think about how hou can achieve more than other creatures, and have them under your rule. Now imagine, how it would be, if you were another creature, and you as a human was being cruel to you. These are the things that make you a human being."
L.W. Salvikov, Author

[Gorgashia]

"One of the few things that make men weep is the death of other man. If no one cries when you die, can you actually say you were human?"

- Fredrick Johnson, Marshal of the Protectorate.

[The Independent Isle of Wight]

"If you don't want people to celebrate your death, don't go into politics, there are plenty of other professions."

-PM Carey Hunt

[Saurisisia]

"It's appropriate that political organizations that try to influence government policy are called 'parties' because politics is the ultimate circus." ~ Hadro Ironhorn

[Estainia]

"It's appropriate that political organizations that try to influence government policy are called 'parties' because politics is the ultimate circus." ~ Hadro Ironhorn

Saur, Saur. I'd hug you, but you're not here, so I can't. So be satisfied with a e-hug.

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"When vacationing in Poland-Lithuania, beware vampires, trolls and direwolves. Otherwise it's perfectly pleasant and on this year's travel list." - Imperial Travel Brochure for Poland-Lithuania

[The Greater Terran]

"My god has a hammer. Your god was nailed to a cross. Do the math."

-- Religious xeklivian to a religious human

"Bla bla blam get out!"

Human supremist to Xeklivian in a Human Pride rally

[Vaxon]

"Only the smartest, strongest, and most cooperative survive. I'm surprised humans aren't extinct."

- Anonymous Vaxonian, speaking about Human division and politics, as well as evolution.