Famous quotations that never were

MrP

Banned
Quotation (original language if you feel like it, though contemporary English is fine) and he/she who uttered it and on which occasion.

veni, vidi, fugi.

I came, I saw, I ran away.

GJC on meeting the armies of Pompey the Great in northern Italia in 49 BC.
 
Damn, I was thinking the same thing. I curse you P.

"Poor little Belgium. So far from God and so close to France."

- Charles Spencer Churchill, 1925
 
From my Chaos TL:

"I'd even have appreciated help by the devil, if this could help me to bring down the Socialists. We fought them on the sea, wherever we could get hold of them; but with your help, we shall also fight them on the fields, ..." - Sir Winston of Marlborough, hunter of Socialist pirates in the Pacific from New Albion (OTL NZ)

"All the ill in the world comes from empty promises" (often shortened to "No empty promises!") and "No theory, no ideology, and no religion is greater than the Truth!" - Sophie Stein, atheist-Jewish philosopher and essay writer, founder of Veritism

"Sophie Stein is the stone that breaks the steel of Socialist propaganda!" - her most prominent patron, Culture/Propaganda Technocrat Georg Hartmann

"Do not spoil the joy and fun of others" - Chandramoorthy, hedonistic Indian guru
 
I thankee. I think the original quote is something about poor little Poland, but I cannot for the life of me remember who said it.

It's tributed to Porfirio Diaz, about Mexico: Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.
 
"As you rebelled against His Majesty in a senseless and bloody pursuit for that liberty which you already possessed, you have been sentenced to the death which you so eagerly sought in your declaration to the Virginian Assembly."

-Royal judge at the sentencing of Patrick Henry, 1780.
 
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I therefore expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it to be divided. " Lincoln's 'House-Divided' Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858.
 
''We must attempt to develop alternatives to oil, for when a single organization, be it a state or a business completely dominates a market, then both the market and organization suffers.''

-Johan Edelfeldt, political commentator, at a speech at the University of Narva campus, named the Ottomans and the Oil.
 
Let's bring the war to London!
~Napoleon

What do you mean with It's to late to cancel the order?
General MacArthur

We have no intentions of tear down the wall.
Erich Honecker 1991
 
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"I have nothing to offer but mud, soil, shears, and sweat." - Application of famed gardener Winston Churchill for the position of head groundskeeper at Whitehall Presidential Palace.
 

Ibn Warraq

Banned
Yes, I did have sexual relations with that woman, Monica Lewinsky.

Bill Clinton


Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.


George W. Bush
 
Give me a man that truly loves me and I will conquer the world
Alexander the Great.

"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees."-Kaiser Wilhelm II 1914 (OTL quote) "Told you so!" -Kaiser Wilhelm II (AH response)
 
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