14 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1901: (General Moylgomery): "The key to Springfield has always been Elm St. The Greeks knew it, the Carthaginians knew it, now you know it." - Herman Hermann |
14 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1901: "In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them." - Napoleon Bonaparte |
15 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1901: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - George S. Patton |
16 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1901: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders. |
17 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1901: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu |
19 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1902: "Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? … He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." — Gen. Jack D. Ripper |
19 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1903: "An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure." — Genghis Khan |
20 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1903: "I am not afraid of a army of lion led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." — Alexander The Great |
20 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1903: “Get strapped or get clapped.” - Sun Tzu |
21 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1903: “Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.” ― John Lewis Gaddis |
22 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1904: "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." ― Julius Caesar |
23 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1904: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. in a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." ― Mark Zuckerberg (human man) |
24 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1904: "Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv’d, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful." ― Francesco Guicciardini |
24 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1905: "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." ― Niccolò Machiavelli |
25 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1905: "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia." ― George Orwell |
26 Jun 20 UTC | Spring, 1906: "If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests." ― Alexander The Great |
28 Jun 20 UTC | Autumn, 1906: "[Real courage] is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." ― Harper Lee |
01 Jul 20 UTC | Autumn, 1907: “Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.” ― Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson |
02 Jul 20 UTC | Autumn, 1907: "What, is the old king dead? As nail in door." ― William Shakespeare. Henry IV, Part II, Act V, scene 3. |
03 Jul 20 UTC | Spring, 1908: “I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one.” - Tony Montana |