Christiaan Rudolf de Wet Quotes

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

The Republic never retreats. Its flag is the only flag that has never known defeat. Where that flag leads we follow, for we know that the hand that bears it onward is the unseen hand of God.

If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.

Surrender Forbidden. The army will hold to the last man and the last bullet.

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

There is no quit in me.

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

You fight and fight. Get every ball back, run every ball down and never, ever doubt.

I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.