Last Stand Quotes

• If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, President, Earth

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

  William Congreve

  Hell Hath No Fury, Mourning, Chocolate

  "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

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• For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mind, Lasts, Glory

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

  Thomas Browne

  Lasts, Sin, Arithmetic

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• The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

  Terry Crisp

  Hockey, Nhl, Differences

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• It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Battle, Lasts, Treats

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

  Jimmy Page

  Heaven, Levels, Lasts

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• I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Song, Children, Writing

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Men, People

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.

  Jo Walton

  Sunset, Thinking, Lasts

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.60, Macmillan

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