"It is Better to Die Upon Our Feet Than To Live Upon Our Knees."

“A journalist relates a great incident of the Spanish Civil War. There was a little garrison of beleaguered men. The end was near and some wished to surrender and so to save their lives; but others wished to fight on. The matter was settled when a gallant soul declared: “It is better to die upon our feet than to live upon our knees.”” [William Barclay, The Letter to the Romans, rev. ed. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), 221.]