Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

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.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Freemen, to the rescue!

Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can’t offer you either honours or wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.

To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Men, today we die a little.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Liberty means more to me than life itself.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

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

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.