One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! – H. L. Mencken

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill