Mencius Quotes

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

I will leave the beach a hero or a corpse.

It is better to die fighting than to live begging.

Heroes don't get anything but dead.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

It is praiseworthy, it is noble and sublime, to avenge Nature when it has been outraged by tyranny. Nothing can compare with the greatness of such action and, even if desolation and death are the reward of such a glorious endeavor, there is no reason to condemn it, for it is not the easily attainable that should be undertaken, but that which justice demands that we do.

We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers..

It is a sweet and proper thing to die for one’s country.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

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

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Troops of heroes undistinguished die.

He died fighting for what he believed in.

Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.