Medgar Evers Quotes

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

We have to be willing to give our lives to put an end to segregation. If we do, then segregation will end even if we die.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

All gave some. Some gave all. Some stood true for the red, white and blue. Some had to fall. Some gave all

It is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

There was a price paid for the freedom that we have. And that price was paid in blood…. Somebody paid a price for us to have access to that ballot box.

I have to tell you, in my judgment, some of us sitting here today will not come back alive from this campaign. I want you to think about it.

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.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Through the centuries, over 1.2 million brave men and women have given their lives for our nation.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

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.

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.

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

Where could death have found him but at the post of duty.

I done but do my duty boys. The flag never touched the ground.

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.

Mighty causes are calling us—the freeing of women, the training of children, the putting down of hate and murder and poverty—all these and more. But they will call us with voices that mean work and sacrifice and death

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

Blessed is that country whose soldiers fight for it and are willing to give the best they have, the best that any man has, their own lives, to preserve it, because they love it. Such an army the United States has always commanded in every crisis of its history.

The Ballot or the Bullet