Quotes of people in your nation MK.III

[New Frenco Empire]

"We're definitely greedy, jingoistic, and ruthless. Thing is, we'll actually admit it."

-Lord Francis Levine to a foreign diplomat who accused the Empire of the aforementioned

[Bojikami]

"I will not tolerate the Bojikamiians. For too long have the people of Manchukuo been shackled down by their imperialism! For our independence! For Manchukuo!"
-Lt. Kao, Manchu Nationalist Army. He was captured and killed in 1943.

[Bereia]

"There is a marked difference between ruthlessness and cruelty."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

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"This nation has the means to set the world aflame. God help us if we ever must use them."

-- President Henry Laurens.

[Belltower pmc]

we do the dirty jobs jobs no soldier would touch with a fifty foot pole belltower black legion trooper jackson omega squad on the black legion

[Estainia]

"What an attractive way to relabel mercenaries because the term offends you, truly." - Cornelius Maximilian

"Really long walls are actually fairly effective if your sentries aren't corrupt bastards, so you can cross the Great Wall off that list, but Hadrian's? Nicely done, that one." - Tiberius Maximilian

[Naiveria]

"If I wanted to here a joke, I'd watch Al Jezeera. However, we are speaking of serious matters."

-Chancellor Dromund (1967) to a member of the United Left Bloc, during a debate on abolishing the Income Tax.

[St Eligius Island]

"Here's the Eligian solution to world poverty: Get politically rid of socialists and get a bloody job."

-Gabriel Grisham, ambassador to the W.A..

[Estainia]

"There were those possessing of honor who fought during the Great War. Not in the Great War, but during it. They fought against the existence of the war itself, they objected to conscription, to mass-death on untold scale, they objected to the status quo, and these great objectors; were by and large, women, who were tired of having their sons drug off to war." - Excerpt from Tiberius Maximilian's non-fiction book How Few Remain

[The Star Vampires]

"People do not understand. I do not do what I do out of a desire for evil or power like some, nor out of a desire for death and culling the weak like Nathrael has. No. I seek to enlighten the universe about the futility of Hope, the pointlessness of Love. They cause pain more intense then the worst torture Nathrael or Stradonitz could conceive of. I know this to be truth, for I have felt them. My lessons are Despair, Suffering, and Misery. In time people will learn what I have to offer, some will come to thank me, but all will come to understand me."--El'Niath-L'Eral.

[The Independent Isle of Wight]

"We need to diss-incentivise poverty by legislatively beating the poor until they choose to become wealthy like I did, and my parents did, and their parents did..."

-Vectian satirist imitating David Cameron

[Gorgashia]

"Our commanders had a very 'attack, attack, attack!' attitude during our opening in the Great War. It cost us dearly against Beusuandille, but the strategy was devised to keep the bastards out of Gorgashia and we thought the element of surprise was just enough on our side. The strategy was quickly changed to holding the Swans back at the mountains. That one worked much, much more better than the last one."

- Fredrick Johnson, Marshal of the Protectorate, on his experience in the Great War.

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

"It's said that Socrates and the other Greek Philosophers had a profound impact on Western Society. Indeed, the United State's seems to have taken Socrates' saying that, 'the unexamined life is not worth living,' very seriously in their latest policies." - Councilperson Xanders

[The Soodean Imperium]

"A noble man's trust is not purchased, but earned."

--from the Book of Shen Hua, an ancient collection of legends dating from the ancient Warring States Era.
Quoted in negotiation with Pantorran diplomats demanding normal relations after threatening nuclear war.

[Saurisisia]

"Democracy on a national level never caught on here whereas the current form of government, enlightened despotism, and monarchy have. Little wonder then that we Saurisians so resist attempts by foreign democrats to impose their form of government upon us."
~ President Hadro Ironhorn

[Naiveria]

"I'm sorry, you find, as you call us, fundamentalists annoying by trampling on your 'right' not to see Bible scripture on a cheerleeders' banner? I'm sorry when did this right, as you call it, supercede others' basic right of freedom of speech and religion? You wasting this council's time, leave us. Oh, and Jesus loves you!"

Ënos Rebeka, Sordon's village leader, to a misotheist zealot complaining about the local cheerleaders' banner containing scripture, that he was "forced" to behold.

[Xekliv]

"So, when is the father being arrested for letting his son take a gun to take to school?"

"No idea--"

"FUCK OFF, COMMIE SCUM! NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR YOUR LIBERAL OPINIONS! GO BACK TO FUCKING DRAGONS OR SOMETHING."

"..Well, he seemed rather peeved."

"Apperently it's a very liberal attitude to think it's a bad idea to give guns to nine-year-olds."

-- Two Xeklivians on a park bench reading the newspaper, before being interrupted by a Human

[Estainia]

"Eh, no, you misunderstand, I get why you need letters and writing, you're a scholar, it's required. Me? Not required, I farm, this is what I'll do for my entire life, I don't need letters and writing to do that." - Farmer, dodging the inquiries of a government scribe to find out if he knew how to read and write or not.

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"You fear my measures because you know as I do, knowledge is power; and power in the hands of the 'peasants' is dangerous. If a man can think for himself, he doesn't need to be told what to do, thus rendering you obsolete." - Cornelius Maximilian, addressing the Blue Council's objections to his establishment of a basic education system.

[Sunny Skies]

"Authority? Man, the only thing I submit to is the psychedelic experience."
-Dudest Dude of the Sunny Skies Board of Elders.

[Solansica]

<<shouts into microphone trying to rally the crowd>> We are not Socialists, we are Solansicans!...
<<aide whispers off-mike into his ear and he whispers back in range of the microphone>> Really?... For how long?...
<<yells back into microphone>> We are not just Socialists, we are also Solansicans!

-- Markus Cornelius during in his Appointment Ceremony Speech at the Great Forum
(the first and final speech of his very short carreer as Chief Councillor of State)

[Saurisisia]

"What has failed in one country works in another, where socialism and democracy work somewhere else, they've failed here and vice versa."
~ Anna Graver, political scientist

[Xekliv]

"Dear mum,

Remember when my dance instructor said I had two left feet? Well I've managed two redress the balance somehow.

P.S, FUCKING HELL AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH"

-- Letter written by an imperial legionary to his mother after losing his leg to a grenade

[The Independent Isle of Wight]

"And they're off!.. Gravity, gravity, more gravity... Oh they're finished. Was that good? They seem happy."

-Vectian commentator during any event at the Winter Olympics

[Saurisisia]

"B-b-b-bubba-bobba-hob-hobba-hobba-wah-wah."
~ A software engineer's reaction to learning he accidentally proposed to a female coworker (she wasn't thrilled either)

[New Hyannis]

"Ora et labora."

("Pray and work.")

~ Motto of St. Catherine's School for Girls.

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"In this profession, one quickly learns to develop a certain style, or he winds up dead."

~ Colonel Finley Seòras David, N.H.M.C.

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"The word Islamophobia says more about the person using it than it does about the person they're using it against. Keep that in mind."

~ Ms. Ameera Najafi, author, political activist, candidate for Congress.

[Flaming Soul Forces]

'Bisexuality is complex and monosexuals just don't understand'

Alican Relenoris, Minister of external affairs