 Then out spake brave Horatius to the captain of the gate. To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods? I think that needs no interpretation. You're going to die anyway, so how about you die defending everything you hold dear? That's really interesting. I was reading a whole bunch of Solzhenitsyn quotes yesterday.