Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "Europe in Our Time, 1914 to the Present" - Page 571 - by Robert Reinhold Ergang - Europe - 1953
“So the men did, and they died.”
Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
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Poul Anderson (1926–2001) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Cold Victory, in Scithers & Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction
“Men die but sorrow never dies.”
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905) writer
The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey (1975).
“They were brave and splendid, all the men. They died like brave men.”
Steve Turner (1949) British writer
Source: The Band That Played On (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 151
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson<br><br>Les hommes ordinaires ont succombé, disait-il; les hommes de fer ont été faits prisonniers; je ne ramène avec moi que les hommes de bronze.<br><br>Mémoires du colonel Combe sur les campagnes de Russie 1812, de Saxe 1813, de France 1814 et 1815. Paris 1853. p. 184 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=KhlYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA184
VI. 146–149 (tr. R. Lattimore); Glaucus to Diomed.
Alexander Pope's translation:
: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground:
Another race the following spring supplies,
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those are past away.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Source: The Iliad
“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts (7 June 1945), quoted in Patton : Ordeal and Triumph (1970) by Ladislas Farago
