“The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.”

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 37, Oriental Religions in the West.

Said at a speech, footage of which is shown in the documentary George Wallace, part of PBS' American Experience

The First Part, Chapter 14, p. 66
Leviathan (1651)

Ch. 3.

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Building a Better Business (2005)

Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Context: They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.