Quotes of people in your nation MK. IV

[New Frenco Empire]

"The people's biggest threats of tyranny seldom come from the state. The real tyranny comes from the people."

-Ygritte Kline, on sociology (partially based on a quote from Hightower involving state vs. society)

[Senyosu]

Humanity must be punished.

-???-

[Xekliv]

"THE COP GROWLS 'TAKE OFF THOSE JEANS, CITIZEN.' I COMPLY, REVEALING THE FULL LENGTH DENIM TATTOOS ON BOTH LEGS. THE COP SCREAMS; DEFEATED"

-- Excerpt from the personal diary of Vortex Theron

[The Free Regime]

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to Seph, The Ancient One. I am the last born of the blood of Seph. The ultimate god of creation. Sent to unleash the Sun."
Seti XVIII

[Umbra Ac Silentium]

"Our hall of shame

1. Highest carbon output in the world
1. Lowest natural water quality
1. Worst air quality in the world
1% extinction rate within borders per year
1. Highest rate of vitamin D deficiencies in the world
1. Most acid rain falling per year
Will we ever learn?" -environmentalist graffiti on the capitol building (graffiti on public buildings is legal)

[Massena]

"Oh, shut your gas-producing facehole and let the rest of us enjoy ourselves, won't you?"

~ Danielle Archer, to a "green" activist.

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"It was strange to me that these awfully happy, friendly, humorous men were, in battle, some of the most terrifying men on the planet. In one instance they were sent against a unit of Germans in northern France, and they ran low on ammunition. Observers walking the field in the aftermath noted the ground in front of their lines was littered with rifles. They had cast down their empty rifles and just gone in with pistols, bayonets, knives, and according to some accounts, bare hands."

~ Col. Simon Jefferson (Ret.), R.M.A., historian, Bardwell University, speaking of Task Force Tikvah.

[Auzkhia]

"Let all the languages of my people ring in my realm."
-Emperor Heinrich

[Multifarity]

"... Freedom must extend to all the people, and Governments must therefore widen the opportunities of those whose liberty is limited by lack of employment, education, health care, housing or help in dealing with disability.
Governments should not try to do what can be better done by individuals, by communities, by voluntary organisations or by private enterprise, but should set about enabling people to help themselves; however governments should be ready to enter into partnership with these organisations to tackle the problems that neither it nor they are capable of solving alone.
Governments should be as democratic and transparent as is compatible with effective action.
Governments should learn to listen to the people to whom they are accountable, not just in elections, but when those people voice their disgust at a policy or action, governments should not feel ashamed to act on their advice and reverse their decisions.
Government must challenge and curb all those who threaten individual freedom by the abuse of monopoly power, by the denial of rights or by crime and violence.
Government must enable society to take the longer and wider view, than is possible through following nothing beyond the profit test.
It is the business of Government to act fairly in the pursuit of a united society, not to identify itself solely with any one section of society or region of the country.
Government must take active steps towards ending discrimination on all grounds..."

-An extract from: 'Multifarity: A treatice on preserving the liberty and prosperity of a people.' (1904)
by the Spanish born Yorkshireman of Anglo-Italio-Scottish ancestry: Franco Luigi Chickens-McNuggett.

[Massena]

"If you do not believe then you do not believe, but I do, and I will not be silent because that offends you."

~ The Rev. Isaac Amos.

[Ruridova]

"I've met foreign libertarians who saw no problem with the military shooting protesters that refused to return home and shut up when kindly threatened, and yet were convinced that giving money to poor people was the first step on the path to the world of 1984. Somehow ghat makes sense to some people."
- Leopold Dietkrech

"Oh, shut your gas-producing facehole and let the rest of us enjoy ourselves, won't you?"

~ Danielle Archer, to a "green" activist.

"Congrats! You can use the 'no you shut up' argument, the same argument I did when I was three. I'm so proud."
- Leopold Dietkrech

[Senyosu]

You speak of abolishing hedonism, yet you pleasure yourself without the regard of others and the environment around you. Such hypocrisy is foolish and is unacceptable.

-???-

[Las Palmeras]

"Might as well do it. I did it when he was younger. Nothing much has changed, the writing is dispersed and he only writes of whatever he considers to be significant or memorable.

'1st of January, 2014. I have little or nothing to say. The red wine was a bit too bitter for my tastes.'

'14th of February, 2014. I gave Tomoko-chan a dress. But she insisted it should be plain. Inversely, she gave me some chocolates.'

'Tomoko-chan'. What is that? Honey bunch? Sweetie? Darling? What? How saccharine!

'27th of February, 2014. How stupidly funny. I was outside the apartment and the full moon gave out lots of light. And I saw something creeping behind me and I jumped. It was my shadow!'

'13th of March, 2014. Today I saw a funny insect that seemed to have a silvery color.'

'19th of March, 2014. I looked up in the morning sky heading to work and I saw a crescent moon with Venus (or a star). I wonder if the Turks were looking at this scene when they made their flag.'

'24th of March, 2014. Watching the skies, at around 8 PM Tomoko-chan and I saw something at the window that we believed was a plane but it was blue and it did a 90 degree elevation. Was it a UFO? Well, it was one. I couldn't identify it. But, was it an alien craft?'

'12th of April, 2014. It's been a while since almost months ago, but Tomoko-chan and I did it three times. In a day.'

*eye twitching occurs* "
-Montserrat Zorilla (Premier), reading her son's journal

[Estainia]

"Be concerned of my silence, for when I am loud, you will fear me." - Sir Augusto Ramires, known for being soft spoken.

[Greater Mackonia]

"You know most of the multidimensional travelers out there usually have an impressive set of powers to say the least; when they are not literal gods, which is more often then not. So it is often quite underwhelming when I reveal that I am really just a bureaucrat with far to much time on his hands and access to all the right permits...I forgot to mention most of these guys are'nt to awed by the fact your a talking vampire lizard with lightening for blood. Acht no I'm not even called Cornelius for chaos' sake"

"The sad truth is that Oligarchy is the end result of all ideologies whether they mean so or not, it is the most natural government type for you whomons and the moment you stop trying to escape that you will become much greater"

-Z.Maglos.

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"There is no point wasting trillions of dollars on environmental targets when, after all your efforts, the biggest polluters of your world couldn't give two fucks and will, quite singlehandedly, render all your efforts and pain null"

-Sethur Malthyt

[Las Palmeras]

"There was one thing that we introduced to the New Dimension, Caapi. But it's a pricey luxery for it can only be grown in greenhouses. The opiate for the Chat (Neko) Free State isn't an opiate...it's a psychotropic. Like most Europeans these people are dependent on wheat, so we taught them how to harvest ergot. And with ergot eventually comes LSD. We imported the more rugged Morning Glories to make LSA as well.

It's a peacemaker."
-Col. Martínez Sosa, 2169

[Greater Mackonia]

"Those of you who side with the Soviet Union have no brains, and those of you who stand with the United States have no hearts"

-Talerii Mistoffeles, to the Council of Non-Aligned Entities, circa 1976.

In Mackonia's universe the CNAE was made up of mainly non-human nations who obviously were not as caught up in ideological struggles as the human states and served as the closest thing to a UN for these countries (though many of said non-humans did join the UN and took sides in the Cold War).

[Las Palmeras]

"After the PRLP-Soviet Split we were vulnerable. Appeasement to the USA and relative disarming was the rule for the 1970s, along with privatizing reforms that were still rather bleak. We very subtly sided with China in 1982. I do suppose it was desperate back then. Though by that point, we really were just like the Chinese...'Communists' because of the fashion."
-Montserrat Zorilla

[Xekliv]

"What do we do, sarge!?"

"I don't know! I've never hit a girl in my life!"

-- Centurion Lord Sarranid Mono, after he and his squad were thrown into a combat training simulation to be used as targets for Princess Octavia Marr

[Ruridova]

"Beneath this stone rests the body
Of a Ruridovan soldier
Of unknown name and rank
Brought from the field of battle
To lie among the illustrious dead
And buried here on Armistice Day 1919
In the presence of
His Majesty King Alexander V
Prime Minister Elie de Lebeaux
Their Ministers of State
The Chiefs of the Armed Forces
And a Vast Concourse of the Nation

Thus here Commemorated
Are the Many Multitudes
Of this Great War, and all Wars Past and Future
That gave the Ultimate Sacrifice that Man can give
Life itself
For Family
For King
For Country
For Justice
For the Sacred Cause of Freedom

Those Heroes who make such Sacrifice
Are truly worthy of burial here."
- inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Cydysa

"There are many Tombs of Unknown Soldiers in Ruridova, a minimum of one per province, frequently as many as three or five, but the national tomb is located In Eastminster Abbey. The location was chosen for a reason: Eastminster's graves contain some of the most hallowed dead. Nearly every Ruridovan king and queen since Aethalwulf the Great is buried there. It's where Ruridova buries it's great generals, great statesmen, great scientists, great writers, and great philosophers, if possible.
As if the act of symbolically burying every soldier who died for Ruridova isn't touching enough? See, they're buried under the abbey, under the stone, and most tombs you can just walk over the stone. The great monarchs of Ruridova can now be literally underneath the feet of a common man. But you're not allowed to stand on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. There are at least a dozen ordinances, stringently enforced, that make it a misdemeanor. It's the only tomb to have such a privilege. That said something, that not only do our fallen deserve to rest among our greatest, they are the greatest. That a man who died for liberty and country is more prestigious and dignified and deserving of respect and admiration than any other.
If you ask me, that's pretty damn awesome."
- Agata Novotny

[Khongsiraem]

"Do not destroy any of it. I may want these when I move in."
- Fmr. Supreme Leadsr Sisavath Phosavanh, 1976, to guerrillas looting the Palace of the Chancellor(before 1953, the Imperial Palace) following its capture

[Auzkhia]

"The day the a petty politician President uses the Imperial Palaces, is the day when Auzkhia loses her soul."
-Giovanni Tedesco.

[Bojikami]

"Give it to the people. How can this be a nation of the people if I keep all of the wealth to myself?"
-Anthony Regovishki, 1917 after storming the imperial palace.

[Estainia]

"Amusingly, Alisonia avoided that past-time. Patterson refused to set up in the palaces his offices of government, nor did he have them torn down, turning them into museums on a simple, humanitarian level so to speak. The Revolution must go on, but the people must remember what decadence it was they overthrew so as to not repeat those mistakes again." - Cornelius Maximilian, perhaps the only non-jaded non-biased historian in the Empire when it comes to the Social Republic of Alisonia.

[Saurisisia]

"Most of the time when it came to revolutions against oppressive monarchies, dictatorships, or democracies, the revolutionaries ended up being every bit as oppressive as the regime they overthrew."
~ Prince Marcus Julius Tyrannus on the 1958 September Revolution that saw the overthrow of the shady Thalnor Dominion government and the rise of the equally oppressive and xenopbobic Alyskan People's Confederacy

[Bojikami]

"No. The Gulags will be closed, but they will remain intact. The children, our future, must remember the horrors of the past and learn to never repeat them in the future, for too long has it been the Bojikamiiam way to abandon and forget the past while recklessly charging into a seemingly bright future."
-Ex-Premier Anthony Regovishki, 1995