“one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap”

“Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”

“I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.”

“If you act like a servant, you will die like a dog.”

“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”

“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.”

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”