Joseph Heller Quotes

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

A man's best gift to his country—his life's blood.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone – how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer.

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

If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.

The person who is worthiest to live, is fittest to die.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

You can't get any more patriotic than dying for the country.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

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.

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.