I Will Die For My Country Quotes

#1. Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Walter Lippmann

#2. I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country ... You, who will see it, welcome it for me ... don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

Jose Rizal

#3. Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Charb

#4. Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!

Michael Badnarik

#5. It is sweet and right to die for your country ... . an old and dangerous lie. It might be necessary, but it is never sweet and rarely right. It's a tragedy.

Louise Penny

#6. There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

John Agyekum Kufuor

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

Pierre Corneille

#8. Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

Elizabeth Bowen

#9. To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?

Cindy Sheehan

#12. You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

Barry Goldwater

#13. I live here. I work here. Why would I have an issue with America? This is the only country that gives you freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of choice. You don't get that elsewhere. Nobody wants to leave America. People die to come here.

Najibullah Zazi

#14. Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Haile Selassie

#15. Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

Tommy Chong

#16. History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain.

"To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131

Danilo Kis

#17. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#18. Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

#19. If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen.

Gus Grissom

#20. Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Isabel Allende

#21. I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his honour and that of his country, Victory or death.

William B. Travis

#22. Let my country die for me.

James Joyce

#23. Now I, too, I thought, had served my country in uniform, had at every moment for two years done precisely what my country had asked me to do. It had asked me to suffer. It had not asked me to die. There

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Sebastian Junger

#25. It's foolish men who die for their country. The intelligent ones make others die for their country instead.

Anonymous

#26. After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

Ronald C. White Jr.

#27. A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Edward Abbey

#28. If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.

Genghis Khan

#29. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Horace

#30. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

George S. Patton

#31. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.

Elizabeth Warren

#32. If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Jack Kevorkian