Shania Twain Quotes

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Come on, fire bullets at me. I am prepared to die for the sake of the people.

The people's flag is deepest red; It shrouded oft our martyred dead .... Then raise the scarlet standard high. Within its shade we'll live or die. Tho' cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the red flag flying here.

The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer to insolent tyranny that has yet been conceived by God or man.

Better to die on one's feet than live on one’s knees., Mejor morir a pie que vivir rodillas.

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

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain.

You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

When you fight an invader by whatever means available to you, you are not a terrorist, you are a hero.

I can give you nothing but my life. I wish that my last breath might be of use to my fellow citizens and that my head'[after she was guillotined], carried through Paris, might be a signal to rally all the friends of justice …. I have shown you the way. You know your enemies. Arise, march, and strike!

We promised loud and boasted high. To break our country’s chains or die; And should we fail, that country’s name will be a synonym for shame.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

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

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.