The Titmouse http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1176/, st. 5
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
“What goes up must come down.”
“The age of cowardice is coming is an end. The age of men will return.”
The Alex Jones Show, "The Age Of Men Has Returned" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaxRIgGkdMc, October 2016
2016
“I never thought an angry person valiant:
Virtue is never aided by a vice.”
Lovel, Act IV, Scene iii
The New Inn, or The Light Heart (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)
"The Lover Comforteth Himself with the Worthiness of his Love", line 19
“All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.”
Ian Smith, "Bitter Harvest".
Marcelo H. del Pilar to the women of Bulacan (1889)
26
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
“Whither are we fleeing, my most valiant men?”
Julian, to his fleeing troops at the Battle of Strasbourg, as recorded by Ammianus Marcellinus, in Book XVI of his history<!-- Loeb Classical Library -->. His army rallied and defeated the German forces. Here, the term "republic" was used in its literal Latin meaning to denote the Roman state.
General sources
Context: Whither are we fleeing, my most valiant men? Do you not know that flight never leads to safety, but shows the folly of a useless effort? Let us return to our companions, to be at least sharers in their coming glory, if it is without consideration that we are abandoning them as they fight for the Republic.
