Alexander Smith Quotes

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

What's so noble about being dead?

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Men, today we die a little.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

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.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave, Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealed The blast of triumph o'er thy grave.

There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches. There's nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you're so great your name will never be forgotten and who's that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You're worth nothing dead except for speeches.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

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

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

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

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.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.