"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism."
― Robert Green Ingersoll
Topic(s):
Death
More From Robert Green Ingersoll
- "Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
- "We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."
- "Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
More In Death
- "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."― Plato
- "We do not celebrate the death of our enemies."― Yitzhak Rabin
- "Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom – all, which makes death a hideous show."― Matthew Arnold