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{{quote| '''Earth President:''' This is... This is the president. I have just been informed that our midrange military bases at Beta Colony and Proxima 3 have fallen to the Minbari advance. We have lost contact with Io and must conclude that they too have fallen to an advanced force. Our military intelligence believes that Minbari intend to bypass Mars and hit Earth directly, and the attack may come at any time. We have continued to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy, and they have not responded. We therefore can only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the Human race. In order to buy more time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for support of every ship capable of fighting, to take part in a defense of our homeworld. We will not lie to you. We do not believe survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle, will never come home again. But for every ten minutes we can delay the military advance, several hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral territory. Though Earth may fall, the Human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a people, but I ask you now, to step forward one last time, one last battle to hold the line against the night! May God go with you all.}}

{{quote| '''Londo Mollari:''' The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself. Never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage and their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope, that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But in the end, they ran out of time.}}

** The prequel [[Clip Show]] movie ''In The Beginning'' verifies that his flashback was the real deal. This also has the [[Hey, It's That Guy!|weird effect]] of giving Micheal York a half-second cameo in the film.

** It gets better / worse in the ''Centauri Prime Trilogy'' of sequel novels. They put a whole new spin on Londo's [[Dying Asas Yourself|death]] at the hands of [[The Power of Friendship|G'Kar]]. ''And'' Londo finally gets to see what a Vorlon looks like: {{spoiler|it takes the form of his dead lover Adira, and guides him away from the Shadows and into heaven}}. It's kind of breathtaking.

{{quote| On the front of my house, there is an art deco door knocker, with a small silver plaque in the center. It contains just three words: Never Surrender Dreams. Faith manages. Here endeth the lesson.}}

* Sheridan talking with his dad one last time before everything is about to hit the fan in ''[[Wham! Episode|Severed Dreams]]''. His dad doesn't know the details, but he's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to have a solid idea, and simply reassures his son that he and his mom will be alright, and that Sheridan must do what he needs to do, just like he was raised to do.

{{quote| Narn: "But the Centauri -"<br />