Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[Estainia]

"I am one of the few people who can say she owns factories and employs workers in places like Bereia and California because I happen to know what an honest day's wage actually looks like and it is not pennies or the right to live like some of those so called nobles think." - Alexandra Cartwright, Owner, Property, CEO of Cartwright Shipping and Toy Making Industry.

[Greater Mackonia]

"The will of the people is a myth purported by career politicians to make themselves feel better about having only a popularity contest to justify their power."

---Premier Lithastir Mythurin.

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^{"The Judeo-Christian moral apparatus (which is also the Secular Humanist moral apparatus and the Socialist moral apparatus) is fundamentally built upon fear, "do unto others as you would be done by": help me because you might possibly be in my situation in the future. It can't even claim to be truly altruistic."}

---Marshall Eloith Huleeja.

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_{"Libertarianism is separated from Modern Liberalism by a distance merely chronological. Both fervently defend the dogmas of the human as a guaranteed subject with quantity thus the only determinator of right, both share a fanaticism for 'natural rights' and 'rule of law', ...both of which are entrusted to a state apparatus to be enforced, modern Progressivism has merely taken this dangerous doctrine of entitlement and collectivism to its logical conclusions by extending the entitlement to material rather than ideal equality."}

---Lauriem Excahvir

[-the Ukrainian SSR-]

"I can tell you that there are only two Austrian Empires here."
-The Creator

Inspired by Mackonia and Nexus of Mans' Foreign Relations page. Enjoy y'alls.

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"The eavesdroppers only listed like...three...if you count the Russian ones. But Auzkhia is like the only Austrian Empire."
-No Name

omfglmao Someone actually remembered he likes soap operas. XD

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"Well, they've gotten over electricity not being magic, I'm pretty sure they still think light switches will explode if they don't approach them with reverence though."

"... That's terrible."

"Yes, yes it is." - conversation between Gen. Valshannar and Gen. Laberenz

[Auzkhia]

"What's a better justification for temporal power over this land and its denizens, God or the people?"
-Heinrich

[Greater Mackonia]

"The Monarch derives his authority from "God", the Democrats of today do so from "Universal Human Rights". Both are baseless,irrational, indefensible concepts conjured up by human will, and as far as I'm concerned those who derive their authority from either are equally illegitimate."

-Premier Lithastir Mythurin.

[Saurisisia]

"The only fighting cause that actually matters is that of your own self-defense or self-interest. After all, what motivates the vast majority of people to enlist into the military is not vague notions of 'freedom' or 'justice', it is devotion to their homeland and their wish to keep it safe from foreign occupation."
~ General (Ret) Cordelia Pachanios, Saurisian Federal Army

[Rome Secunda]

"The Legion is not defeated. Victory is simply delayed."
--Legate Faustus Caerellius, speaking to a captured enemy after the Third Battle of Pelerius Mons, 2300 AD. The first and second battles had ended in the Roman legion retreating, in large part due to the numerical superiority of the defenders and the poor decisions of some officers, who expected their enemy to use tactics similar to those of tribal barbarians. At the Third Battle, however, the arrival of fresh troops and the Legate from Aquilonia led to a swift defeat of the city.

[Igoria]

"You know, if you'd wanted to threaten me, you ought to have chosen a better place than my personal office. Preferably one where I don't have a panic button within my reach."

"I didn't come here to threaten you, Fesh."

"What, to kill me, then? Killing me will only usher in someone worse." the Regent scoffed.

"There is none worse."

Fesh let out a snort of derision. "Oh please, Rumatis, don't pretend to be one of those idiots that mask their own shortcomings behind a cowl of righteousness. There are many people out there by far worse than me. Religious zealots, for instance. Or the polar opposite, those Vidireans."

"You're bad enough."

"Pah. It's not me you hate, Rumatis. You don't even hate that which I stand for. You're no monarchist, no more than any sane man today is. After all, does anyone seriously think that leaving the governance of state up to the spin of a die each time an Emperor dies is a good idea? We've had good Emperors like the late Veztazon II, and like his namesake Veztazon the First of His Name. But we've also got dealt a hand of buffoons like Veztazon II's brother Illifer, cruel parasites like Zikhmerius IV, plain madmen like Atikan XII and the soul of avarice, Valerian VII."

Rumatis was silent.

"No, Rumatis," the Lord Regent continued, "you hate the fact that I came this far. That I toppled an aeons-old institution, the Sathrus Dynasty, one that many, your forebears included, have tried and failed to overthrow. You hate my success." The Regent rose. "Jealousy is a bitter vintage I've tasted many times, Rumatis. As is disappointment in oneself."

A conversation between Lord Regent Ocillus Fesh and Margrave Don Rumatis, the Lord Commander of His Imperial Majesty's Palace Guard. Set in an alternate universe, where Ocillus Fesh seizes power following Emperor Veztazon II's death.

[Nueva San Cristobel]

"Everyone knows it was your fault for letting your presidents get delusions of grandeur into their heads. Now please stop posting, I get tired of having this conversation with every single Californian who comes here thinking Glorious California is utterly infallible and can do no wrong." - Vicente Rodrigues, Blogger, discussing the First Calo-Cristobellan War with a Californian nationalist.

[Gorgashia]

... I can't tell if I should be happy or saddened that Gorgashia's thing is that we clearly accessed the cheat codes when we decided to be Socialist. @ The Foreign Relations Things

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"It is fascinating how the culture of the Mountain-Gorgashi can look so modern, but be steeped in so much tradition and ancient memory. I don't say this as a critique or appraisal, but simply as an observation. For example, they were and are incredibly flexible on gender roles, although roles boys and girls expected to fill in are present, exceptions could be given without much controversy or debate. The tribes of the Mountain-Gorgashi have a very egalitarian structure with no specific positions of inherent authority. On the other hand, the Mountain-Gorgashi have a very old attitude in regards to those incapable of helping themselves. Literally, anyone in the tribe who can't get a job or serve the tribe in any shape anymore, as in, anyone who's retired or enfeeble, usually both, are encouraged to leave the tribe and go kill themselves somewhere on their ancestral mountain. I repeat, the Mountain-Gorgashi still practise ritual suicide or exile, as they consider it, but the odds of an old man who has worked for his tribe until he can't work anymore surviving in the wilderness isn't exactly high. The same even applies to their proving rituals to adulthood, where a young Gorgashi must prove themselves capable of scaling down a mountain, getting through the forests, foraging through the plains to find and kill a buffalo, drain it's blood, take that blood back up the mountain, dig a little whole into said mountain, place a little stone totem that they carved themselves into the hole, then pouring the blood while reciting ancient rites of worship to the mountain. Depending on the tribe, this is what a Mountain-Gorgashi calls their sixteenth to twentieth birthday. That's also the time limit, if they start at sixteen, to re-try the proving ritual if they fail, otherwise they're cast out from the tribe and that's basically a death sentence in Gorgashia. Modern technology has helped improve the success rates in recent years, at least they don't frown upon pragmatism, these kids now have compasses and maps to guide them and rifles to shoot the buffalo with, but the theme remains the same. You better earn your damn place in the tribe to reap the benefits of being in it. It's like Communism written by Ayn Rand, there's all this collectivist sentiment mixed with a deification of self-reliance, the adults in a tribe all hold roughly equal status, some goes for municipalities with a dominant Mountain-Gorgashi population, but they only hold it so long as they're capable of getting a job or providing for the tribe in some other way. Otherwise, you can just go screw off and die in the mountains like all your ancestors did, I mean, some live as hermits at the mountain peaks until their aged bones and muscles give in, but most of them just sit whispering prayers to the mountain until they croak. It's even stranger when you look at them from a demographic perspective. The Mountain-Gorgashi reek of old values and worship of old ways and ancestors, but there's not a lot of old people in the tribes because of the, well, ritualistic suicide I just mentioned. Now, it all makes sense historically, the Mountain-Gorgashi started as heretical refugees from the plains spurned by the Shamans and Chieftains of their tribes, so they did away with such positions among themselves and had to weed out the weak while working as a group to survive the radically new environs of the mountains. However, this siege mentality has not been lost, even though the Mountain-Gorgashi and Plains-Gorgashi haven't been at war for centuries, although there are tensions here and there, many of their ways and methods from those trying times have not been cast aside. Some could argue that it's because these values were ingrained so strongly in those desperate times that the current peace of the modern days can't wash it out. It could also be raised that the traditions remain because they have continued to work so far, the Mountain-Gorgashi have not declined yet and surely lifestyles that could endure times of blood and struggle should flourish and prosper in times of peace and prosperity. Regardless, it was painted an image of contrasts, black and white, on the cultural tableau of Gorgashia; where collectivism meets self-reliance, the young enforce old rites and ways of war survive in times of peace."

- Jacques Robespierre, Gorgashian Historian. In 'Gorgashians: The People of Mountains, Plains, Rivers and Coasts.'

[Auzkhia]

"The Griffons only fought for gold, for their love and loyalty belongs to the highest bidder! Never ask a griffon for a favor, for he will give you price and expect you pay it immediately in cash. They are so money loving that they will sell you a service that protects money, and they get some to as a fee. It's no wonder they are a bankers and mercenaries, and they are the best bankers and mercenaries in the world. The country with the most griffons is Switzerland, and Swiss German and Swabian are called 'Griffon Tongues', and we happen to view the Swiss as boring and serious, despite having both the striking looks of both eagle and lion."
-Prince Regal Stallion, a condensed speech on history and characteristics of the griffon people

[Xekliv]

"Your next line will be, 'You primitive brute! Your pitiful weapons are no match against my magical prowess!'"

"You primitive brute! Your pitiful weapons are no match against my magical prowess! Huh?!"

-- Canton Ripfist in a battle with an Elven mage

[Bojikami]

"No no, let us leave the Indians in peace, for I find it utterly remarkable that despite their many differences, they maintain such peace, and what is my place to disturb such tranquility?"
-Khagan Morthal, 1705

[Auzkhia]

"It is no wonder that the Dutch are so happy, because they eat chocolate sprinkles on toast for breakfast."
-Anon

[Las Palmeras]

"If we were anthropomorphic animals, what would we be? We never asked for gold because we were always tied up to 'loyalty' and did our job best regardless. History has proven time and time again that we've seldom disobeyed direct orders...at least in battle. But we didn't do battle to live, it seemed that we lived for it. Hand picked for it among all of Spain's colonial forces. I'd say dogs. Blindly loyal unless underfed, ideologically trained, and happy to fulfill a 'good job'. Not really winning is necessary all the time, a decent-enough body count is though."
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"Historically, the last big war in which Las Palmeras had significant activity in was in was it's 1898 rebellion, 'regular' action was spent being fodder for the Americans, the only real big 'regular' thing around was in the late 18th Century facing Portuguese colonial forces. It could be said though, that 'irregular' actions were always our thing. The indigenous did it for a few decades, we did it in our failed uprising, and in our Independence, then the Communist Revolution and finally even 'aiding' in Angola, the Congo and what was Rhodesia, and even volunteered in secret in Vietnam....But that's not it; we've also been on the other side of the 'COIN' in Central America, and México, and the Philippines...and even against our own throughout the 1820s and 1830s all under the flag of Spain.
-The Office Lady

[Auzkhia]

"Who is a militarist?"
-A line from a poster comparing the amount of wars and defence spending of Great Britain, France, and Auzkhia, from 1700-1914.

[Bereia]

"God disapproved of the Hebrews wanting a king. Most people forget that. He had intended to lead them directly as His people, speaking through the Prophets and letting them live life by His laws independent of any mortal rulers, but they insisted. As was His way, he punished them by allowing them what they asked for, but in such a way as to make them regret it."

-- Father Nathan Cathcart.

[Estainia]

"Their endless list of honorifics are difficult to keep up with."

"They are no different than father dearest, father."

"They have dozens of them."

"Casted societies tend to do that, even when the castes are abolished." - part of a conversation between Cornelius and Camilla Maximilian

[Sovetskaya Rossiya]

"The state and the corporation are both two sides of the same coin. Neither, no matter what one or the other says, is your friend. They only seek to exploit and abuse."
-Serik Timurov, disgruntled teenager

"Reform? My friend you must be living in past times, ever since Ligachev put a bullet between Gorbachev's eyes, any murmurs of reformation are swiftly stamped out, with only utter silence to take their place."
-Soviet Citizen, in conversation

[Auzkhia]

"Reform was the buzzword at the time, especially since we were the bastion of the Old World."
-An elderly stallion, reminiscing about the olden days of the middle 19th Century

[Aurordeca]

"Progressives tend to squeak in by thin margins based on a few solid voting blocs, so if you can shave even just a little bit off each of those blocs..."

- Jordan J. Williams, Republican strategist, 2018.

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"Today you drive a cab, but one day, Allah willing and if you work hard, you will own a business and pay others to work for you. Vote for the Republicans always. They will leave you alone to work in peace. The others, the Democrats, will demand everything you have, and give you nothing back for it."

- Abu Nwosu, legal immigrant & businessman, to new hires.

[Auzkhia]

"Most people look shocked when I tell them there is more to life than money."
-Brother Johann Worbs, Friar

[Las Palmeras]

"The insurgent is a pest in the house of a nation; the nation's defenses are made up of men in uniforms. Enormously obvious, loud, slow, unable to fit inside furniture and cracks, the nooks and crannies who constantly need attention to direct properly to do the slightest of things. The best way to kill a rodent is getting a small and semi-hungry cat. The cat is faster than a man, it can fit into small and dark places, it can sniff out rodents...and it's almost independent. It has a purpose but it's not fully capable of receiving orders, but only a supportive base is needed; a minimal ounce of authority the homeowner has in assuring the servants the cat is a needed annoyance to rid an unnecessary infestation."
-Captain Gonzalo de Irala, 1819

[Auroya]

"Is there anything I would like? Yes, as a matter of fact. Your resignation letter on my desk tomorrow morning, please."

"But it's midnight now!"

"I won't use it quite yet. You are quite the valuable asset after all, but you've grown terribly complacent lately. Take it as a polite reminder; we're on the same side after all."

--- Empress Cinya Iocyr and an MP

[Benum Landum II]

"It does not matter in the slightest whether you are communist or capitalist. Neither of them are better than Fascists!"

-Bænvārð Gilþārð