Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.”
Life of Nelson (ch. 9), when asked to cover the stars on his uniform to hide his rank during battle.
1800s
“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”
‘Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
“I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top.”
Predicting that he would go senile, as quoted in The Highway of Letters and its Echos of Famous Footsteps (1893) by Thomas Archer, p. 380
“And shall I die? and unrevenged?”
she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
“I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.”
Televised address to the nation
Speeches
Love is Enough (1872), Song V: Through the Trouble and Tangle
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.”
As quoted in The Law of Rewards : Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose (2003 by Randy C. Alcorn, p. 18
General sources
“Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.”
Before the Battle of the Nile (1 August 1797), as quoted in Life of Nelson, Ch. 5; alternately reported as "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"
1790s
