John Milton Quotes

He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age and infirmity. As in all his campaigns, he assailed his adversary with endless high spirits, expert advice, ample helpings of brandy and champagne, and the loving and long-suffering support of his wife.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

Fight to the bitter end.

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

You may defeat me in a final vote, but you'll never get me to quit.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

We will fight in every valley, in every street, in every oasis, and every town. We won't surrender again; we are not women; we will keep fighting.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Never give in, never back down.