I was thinking both, along the lines of what a Sarge or other leader would yell to get his men out of the trenches.
Fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live – at least a while
And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!
William Wallace
But what was it that inspired you to take the job in the first place? Back in my day it began, “Greetings from the President of the United States."
grape flavor-aid, and was reported to be without sugar- how disgusting is that?
Insult to injury. No wonder people were crying.
The chieftain who invented religion:
Chieftain: “Go charge those spears”
Tribesmen: “No way!”
Chieftain (thinking) “Um, if you do, you won’t really die. In fact, you’ll go to a better world… a paradise, yeah, that’s it!”
I wasn’t referring to Heaven’s Gate at all.
The key thing is knowing when to shut up.
I prefer the Wee Free Men
**They can tak’ oour lives, but they cannae tak’ oour troousers!" **
Si
Nope. If it was 73… then we could talk. I’m not doing it for 72.
Oh, thats not PC? well she started it!
Yes, I know that 72 equates to an infinite number. … :dubious:
[Jack Bauer]I need a tactical team assembled and ready to meet me within the hour!![/Jack Bauer]
“Die for me and I’ll make out with you.”
“Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim Gun, and they have not.”
“Front rank, present arms! Range, 600 yards. Fire on my command…”
Inspiring words for British Soldiers facing hordes of charging Natives. Not so inspiring for the charging Natives, though…
No, mine is an undying love.
“CHARGE!!!”
Last one to the enemy front line is a nerd!
One of David Letterman’s Top Ten lists back in the '80s was something like “Top Ten Least-Inspiring Battle Cries of History.” The one I remember was, “Let’s win this for our swishy, inbred monarch!”
Go fight an maybe die or stand here while I shoot you.
“Well, you see, George, I did like it, back in the old days when the prerequisite of a British campaign was that the enemy should under no circumstances carry guns – even spears made us think twice.”
–Captain Blackadder
“Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
It is rumored that at San Juan Hill, Teddy Roosevelt said, “Follow me!”.