I feel that I would like to be like the heroes of the Alamo. When their intrepid leader explained that it would be impossible to hold the fort against the superior forces of the enemy, he said it was possible to surrender, to seek to escape, or to fight and finally die. Said he, "I have chosen to do the latter." And, making a mark on the floor with his sword, he asked that all who elected to stand with him in this decision come across to his side of that line.
All the able-bodied came across at once, while one who was sick of fever and too weak to cross cried to his comrades not to forsake him, but to lift his cot across the line, that he might die even though he could not fight.
William Moses Tidwell, "Pointed Illustrations."
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