There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.