Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

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

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

Mexicans, I die with honour, and not as a traitor. That stain I will not bequeath to my children and their posterity; I am not a traitor, no.

Lest I keep my complacent ways I must remind myself.. Someone out there died for me today As long as there is war.. I ask and I must answer.. Was I worth dying for?

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

If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.

Men, today we die a little.

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.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

A king should die on his feet.