Albert Camus Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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

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.

For months people have been begging me to come here for this Kamikaze operation. We will die well. The fact that we are taking a role in a great moment is history is a great honor.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

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

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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.

Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun.

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.

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

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

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

People aren't universally heroic.

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.

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

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.