Elizabeth I Quotes
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.
Chamberlin, Frederick. The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth. John Lane, 1923, p. 142.
Joseph Addison had earlier written of such a situation. Recent research has strongly suggested that Hale may never have said these words. The American patriots wanted to have heroes and may not have been too worried about the documentation and historical research. See {621112}
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. He was responsible for the brutal killing of over 1 million of his own people.
Ataturk had been a military hero, but was very much opposed to war and military adventurism not unlike the Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell type leaders. However, the one thing that he thought worth the sacrifice of his own and other Turkish lives was Turkish independence and sovereignty. Historically, the Ottoman Empire which Ataturk finally ended, had dominated half of Europe and all of the Mid East at the cost of sovereignty of other nations and Ataturk saw no more important virtue with dying for than national sovereignty. See {125322} and {584501}.
Compare Nathan Hale's last words.
The following day she was assassinated.
Russell despised the Commission Chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren and had refused to serve. Johnson changed Russell's mind. See Richard B. Russell.
The Poles were fighting the Russians. Pulaski was a Field Marshall. This was before he had come to America and fought in the American Revolution.
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
