Great Throughts Treasury

"It's better to die upon your feet than to live upon your knees!"

"I prefer to die standing than to live forever on my knees."

"Land and Liberty!"

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."

"I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never."

"I want to die a slave to principles, not to men."

"Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist."

"We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave."

"The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people."

"The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters."