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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

— Eamon de Valera

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

— John Lubbock

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

— Zebulon Pike

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

— Abraham Lincoln

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

— Shigeru Yoshida

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

— Matthew Simpson

Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.

— Adoniram Judson

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

— Jonathan Larson

We will persevere, come life or death.

— Lewis Tappan

✗Opposing Perspectives

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

— William Shakespeare