James G. Frazer Quotes

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

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

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.

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

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

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Men, today we die a little.

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

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

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.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.