“Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men”
Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847) Irish political leader
from his speech in Mallow, County Cork
“I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.”
As quoted in Heroes of Mexico (1969) by Morris Rosenblum, p. 112
Variant: I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
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Will die a slave and an orphan.”
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Simon Munnery (1967) British comedian
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Context: Glorious is the risk! — καλος γαρ ο κινδυνος, glorious is the risk that we are able to run of our souls never dying … Faced with this risk, I am presented with arguments designed to eliminate it, arguments demonstrating the absurdity of the belief in the immortality of the soul; but these arguments fail to make any impression on me, for they are reasons and nothing more than reasons, and it is not with reasons that the heart is appeased. I do not want to die — no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live — this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.
David Hume book Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Part I, Essay 9: Of The Parties of Great Britain; final lines of this essay in the 1741 and 1742 editions of Essays, Moral and Political, they were not included in later editions.
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)
“Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
“Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Stobaeus, iii.1.18
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Regarding John Brown, as quoted in A Lecture On John Brown http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mfd&fileName=22/22002/22002page.db&recNum=9&tempFile=./temp/~ammem_rvc6&filecode=mfd&next_filecode=mfd&prev_filecode=mfd&itemnum=2&ndocs=32
“When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) American author
Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)
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