Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Julius Caesar

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
Dennis Miller

Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes