“I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) Mexican Revolutionary
As quoted in Heroes of Mexico (1969) by Morris Rosenblum, p. 112
Variant: I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
“And I, as I lived, in an alien land
Will die a slave and an orphan.”
— Mikhail Lermontov, book The Novice
"The Novice" (1839)
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