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The Spartans did not inquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.—AGIS II.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us.—SHAKESPEARE.

Better, like Hector, in the field to die,

Than, like a perfumed Paris, turn and fly.

LONGFELLOW.

Let me die facing the enemy.—BAYARD.

Who conquers me, shall find a stubborn foe.—BYRON.

Courage in danger is half the battle.—PLAUTUS.

No great deed is done

By falterers who ask for certainty.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Fortune befriends the bold.—DRYDEN.

Tender handed stroke a nettle,

And it stings you for your pains;

Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

AARON HILL.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.—BOVÉE.

Man should dare all things that he knows is right,

And fear to do nothing save what is wrong.

PHEBE CARY.

Soft-heartedness, in times like these,

Shows softness in the upper story.

LOWELL.

O friend, never strike sail to fear. Come into port grandly, or sail with God the seas.—EMERSON.

To stand with a smile upon your face against a stake from which you cannot get away—that, no doubt, is heroic. But the true glory is resignation to the inevitable. To stand unchained, with perfect liberty to go away, held only by the higher claims of duty, and let the fire creep up to the heart—this is heroism.—F. W. ROBERTSON.

"Steady, men! Every man must die where he stands!" said Colin Campbell to the Ninety-third Highlanders at Balaklava, as an overwhelming force of Russian cavalry came sweeping down. "Ay, ay, Sir Colin! we'll do that!" was the cordial response from men many of whom had to keep their word by thus obeying.