Someone dead said it better

I love quotes I figured I needed a running list.
It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep!
-Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.-
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
”History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die“- Napoleon
What they did to me created me.- V
Never get out of the boat, absolutely god damn right, unless you were going in all the way.
I dare do all that may become a man who dares more is none.
People Should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.-V
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof-V
I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.-V
A man can fail, he can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten but 400 years later an idea can still change the world.-V
Then you have no fear any more, your completely free.-V
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among human creatures.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.-Aldus Huxley
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security- Big Ben Franklin
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. D. Thompson
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.-Epictetus
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.-Douglas himself
None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.-Goethe
Great men were made by other great men. Patton had Rommel. Grant had Lee! -Bethlehem
I know what your problem is. Do you know why you won't fight? Because you have nothing to fight for! You don't care about anything! You don't value anything! You don't believe in anything!Bethlehem
Law one. You will obey orders without question. Law two: Punishment shall be swift. Law three: Mercy is for the weak. Four: Terror will defeat reason. Five: Your allegiance is to the clan. Six: Justice can be dictated. Seven: Any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan. Law eight: There is only one penalty. Death. Bethlehem
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.- Big Lady D. Thompson
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.-Shaw
It is not only the living who are killed in war.- Asimov