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Dying for one's country9 quotes
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. — Homer · 700 BCLovely and honorable it is to die for one's country. — Horace · 23 BCFix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action... So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all memorials, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the memorial of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. — Pericles · 430 BCYou think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922All 9 quotes →War4 quotes
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. — General George S. Patton · 1969I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914Patriotism3 quotes
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918Lovely and honorable it is to die for one's country. — Horace · 23 BCYou think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922World War I2 quotes
They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914Abuses of patriotism1 quote
I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914Anti-war1 quote
You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists. — Anatole France · 1922Dying for one's religion1 quote
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods. — Thomas Babington Macaulay · 1842Great men1 quote
Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action... So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all memorials, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the memorial of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. — Pericles · 430 BCHeroes1 quote
Fix your eyes on the greatness of Athens as you have it before you day by day, fall in love with her, and when you feel her great, remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action... So they gave their bodies to the commonwealth and received each for his own memory, praise that will never die, and with it the grandest of all memorials, not that in which their mortal bones are laid, but a home in the minds of men, where their glory remains fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes fresh to stir to speech or action as the occasion comes by. For the whole earth is the memorial of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. — Pericles · 430 BCSelf-sacrifice1 quote
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918