A day for Quotes

It's a downer of a day due to political developments that foreshadow a depressing future.

Rather than write about that, I thought I'd list some quotes that served me as inspiration when building the background for another depressing future- that from my Shadowrun Campaign, a setting which in my timeline leads to the near destruction of the world and the post-apocalyptic Morrow Project Campaign.


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"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.", Abraham Lincoln.


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“It is ever so with the things that men begin: there is a frost in Spring or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.”, Gimli from Lord of the Rings.


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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.", perhaps George Santayana.


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"Wealthy Republics do not last long. Wealthy Republics that try their hand at governing subjects soon cease to be wealthy republics. Often they cease to be either.", Jerry Pournelle*

*paraphrase slightly as the orignal quote ended with "neither" rather than "either" and seems to be in context a typo.

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"For it is the doom of men that they forget.", Merlin from the move Excalibur.