Quotes About Defiance

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Force is the weapon of the weak.

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

We may be annihilated, but we cannot be conquered.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.