Alternate History/Quotes
The first rule of time travel is that any and all modifications made to the timeline result in Hitler winning World War II. Run over a hippy in 1968? Hitler wins.
—colonel_green, ScansDaily
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"Somehow stories about what the South would do if they won the Civil War don't focus on the potential socio-economic effects of an independent Confederacy, or on how politics and civil rights would evolve in those two nations, or even how the two could come to a amicable peace. It's always about war and slavery."
—Anon
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"Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Big Horn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't'."
—Eli Cash, The Royal Tenenbaums
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"What if the Germans had won the war, Lemon?"
—Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
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