Quotes

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" - Thomas Jefferson

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." - C.S. Lewis

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

"Never before in the course of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill, speaking of the pilots who fought the Battle of Britain

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so." - John Donne

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more: Or close the wall up with our English dead!" - William Shakespeare (Henry V)

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C.S. Lewis

"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter." - Homer, book 22 of the Iliad

"And I am convinced that every man of you would rise up and tear me down from my place if I were for one moment to contemplate parley or surrender. If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground." - Winston Churchill, speaking in 1940 after a disastrous beginning to the Second World War

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis

"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gate is less formidable, for he is known, and carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves freely among those within the gate, his sly whispers rustling through the alleys, heard in the halls of government itself." - Cicero

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought p easy, let t slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." - D.H. Lawrence

"Let me give you my vision: a man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master." - Margaret Thatcher

"I am just going outside, and may be some time." - Captain Lawrence Oates, sacrificing his life in the hope that, by no longer slowing down the rest of the expedition, Robert Scott and his men would make it to freedom. His memorial reads "Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L.E.G. Oates of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willing to his death in a blizzard to try to save his comrades, beset by hardship."

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important." - C.S. Lewis

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
- Pericles (on the Bomber Command memorial in London)

"Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all other liberties." - John Milton

"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too." - Sir Francis Drake, on being interrupted in a game of bowls with news that the Spanish Armada was approaching

"Thou will find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last." - Marcus Aurelius

"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing." - G.K. Chesterton

"Beware the peddlers of rights. They wish to turn you into someone who is simultaneously privileged and 'victimised': whiny, narcissistic, noisy, demanding, chronically unhappy, and of little se to themselves or other people. Instead...sort yourselves out. Shoulder your responsibilities. Make yourself useful to others. Find the heaviest burden you can bear, and bear it stoically, forthrightly, and admirably." - Jordan Peterson

"Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
'To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the Ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
- Thomas Macaulay (Lays of Ancient Rome)

"How far that little candle throws his beams --
So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once." - William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

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