Alternate history quotes from famous people?

Question

I saw (and contributed to) a post like this on another internet board, and it caught my imagination.

Here's a few of mine -

"Mr. Lincoln, I have decided to accept your offer of command of the Union Army." - Robert E. Lee

"I don’t give a sh** that the communists are getting stronger in the cities. Those reds’ll never overthrow us, so we don’t need any damn programs to undercut their appeal. Let the hobos starve." - Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Hopkins

"You’re hired." - baseball scout for the N.Y. Yankees to University of Havana pitcher Fidel Castro

"Better not mess with the CIA. They’ve got all those assassination teams overseas, and we wouldn’t want them to bring one of them home, now would we?" - John F. Kennedy to his brother Robert

"Houston, we’ve thought about it, and we’ve decided not to wait till the next mission. Instead of just doing the test flight, we’re going to take the lander all the way down to the lunar surface." - the crew of Apollo 10

"Naw, people will never accept that religion-in-politics thing. We should just spend the money on the new church building." -Jerry Falwell

"I don’t like the idea of giving military help to those Islamic fundamentalists. What if they stop shooting at the Russians and start attacking us?" -Ronald Reagan

'Well, their religion is a little weird, but they're not actually breaking any laws. You better leave 'em alone." -Head of the ATF on February 28, 1993

"Look, I’ve been re-reading that proposal from Robert Heinlein, that retired Navy man who writes those science fiction stories. I think we really need to reconsider his idea to start working on spaceships."
"Now I understand that the admiral rejected his proposal. I want you to talk to the admiral again. If he can’t give a better answer to why it won’t work than ‘Because I say so,’ I’m going to fire him and give this Heinlein fellow his job." -1946 Memo, Harry Truman to Navy Secretary James Forrestal

HOW ABOUT SOME OF YOURS?

Answer 1

"You know, that Franklin fellow has a good point. If we wish to tax the colonies to defray the expense of the just-concluded war with the French, they have the right, as British subjects, to representation in Parliament. Let us create thirteen new seats for them in the Commons."

George III to Grenville, 1765

Answer 2

because of the fact this will no longer be scriptural actuality. if God isn't a plural being, how then do you clarify the undeniable fact that practically each word used interior the unique hebrew previous testomony for God is "elohim" ? "elohim" is a plural word, no longer a novel word. additionally, how do you clarify those verses genesis a million:26, genesis 11:7, isaiah 9:6, john a million:a million-sixteen and john 10:30. additionally, your historic tips is incorrect besides. by making use of the time constantine got here into ability, the bible become already written and commonly used in basic terms as that's. you say you're studying those issues from examining....yet what's it you're examining? the word of God itself or the flaws that different individuals say regarding the word of God?

Answer 3

Here are a few of mine: "You know this idea where we redistribute land is a bad idea. What if we just let the Czar stay in power and hope for the best."-Nicolai Lenin

"I'm actually not all that eager for military conquest. I think I will stay home and knit."-Napolean

"You know I would rather we just attempted to reform the Republic. This trying to be dictator could get a guy killed."-Julius Ceaser on March 14.

Answer 4

"General Wolfe is desperately seeking a last opportunity to attack us so, men, leave the harvesting and keep a sharp eye on the Foulon cliffs and the river below."

--French colonel Antoine de Bougainville to his men the eve of the battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759


"You know, France lost over 74,000 men in Indochina, and this Diem fellow is not upholding democratic principles in South Vietnam. I don't think we should give him any military advisors. We can better face communism by sending humanitarian aid to areas in need."

--President Eisenhower to Allen Dulles of the CIA, 1956

Answer 5

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-- Mark Twain