A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. – Percival Arland Ussher

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth – of my passions – of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies – whose factions I sought to quell – whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim – whose freedom has been my fatal dream. – Thomas Francis Meagher