Jack Bowman Quotes

Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red.

The soldier going down and the cause of freedom never dies—immortality is his.

Our wars were not fought for the glory of war, but for freedom.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

You'll be free or die!

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

They refused to be servants of kings, and were never ruled by any. But when they were called on for help in war, they responded gladly.

They died to save their country, and they only saved the world.

A glorious death is his Who for his country falls.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

If you avoid dying for the honour and freedom of the Fatherland, you will die a criminal or a slave; die for the faith and the Fatherland and you will be granted life and a crown in heaven

A sword should be laid on my bier, for I have been a steadfast soldier in the war of liberation of humanity.

An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

My promises to the people for whom I have waged war have been fulfilled — to accomplish their independence and leave the choice of their rulers to their own will. The presence of an unfortunate soldier, however disinterested he may be, is not desirable in newly constituted states. On the other hand, I am tired of having it said that I wish to make myself King. In short, I shall always be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the liberty of the country, but as in the character of a simple private citizen and in no other.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

God save Ireland, said the heroes God save Ireland said they all. Whether on the scaffold high, Or the battle field we die O’ what matter when for Ireland dear we fall.

Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die!

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Men, today we die a little.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.