Be bloody bold and resolute.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

You must die erect and unyielding.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Alike prepared for all fates, at each breath
assured of triumph and contemning death.

The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power, is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can. oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality — who will press toward his object while death is impending over him — who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.

With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire

Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Alive enough to have strength to die

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.