Paul Eldridge Quotes

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

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.

I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The more people who die for our cause, the stronger we shall become.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

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

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

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

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

I swear in front of my mother’s grave and in the presence of God, that I shall not hesitate to join her if this be necessary for the defense of the sovereignty which the nation has won at the cost of so much blood. I deem it a debt of conscience and honor to give my life for the sake of national sovereignty.

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

The revolutionist has no personal right to anything. Everything he has or earns belongs to the Cause. Everything, even his affections.

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die today every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

We believe in our destiny. We do not shrink from any sacrifice.

… the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power