“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Abraham Lincoln
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare
“There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.” William Shakespeare
“But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” William Shakespeare
“The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.” Homer
“In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” Mark Twain