Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

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

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Colonel, I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

It is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country.

It is a sweet and glorious thing to die for one's country. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

He who defends his money is a martyr, and who defends his religion is a martyr, and he who defends his honor is a martyr.

I long to die for such a true cause; I wish to expire on the bed of glory; I wish to perish at my post.

Send me six hundred men who know how to die

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

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

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

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

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

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

Men, today we die a little.

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

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.

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

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.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.