It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Emiliano Zapata (1877 - 1919)

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'