Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and pay the ultimate sacrifice to defend us.

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.

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

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

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

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

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.

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.

In Latin America we love the kind of hero who dies for his cause. They are the only kinds of leaders that we trust.

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

The terrorists gave up their lives to kill people. Americans gave up their lives to save people.

Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it, No, not a shred of it, In all the spread of it, From foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing in red.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

A glorious death is his Who for his country falls.

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

The soldier going down and the cause of freedom never dies—immortality is his.