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5->'''Marshal Dina:''' This is it guys. It's Thermopylae. It's Rorke's Drift.\
6'''Marshal Gregson:''' Huh?\
7'''Marshal Dina:''' The Alamo, Gregson.\
8'''Marshal Gregson:''' Yeah. John Wayne.\
9'''Marshal Dina:''' It's a last stand. No quarter. We can't be sure Canary will deliver the goods. We have to face the fact we're not leaving here. They might overrun us. They might beat us. They might kill us. But they'll never forget us.
10-->-- ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', issue 14
11
12->''"A billion to one? You think I'm afraid of that!? YOU THINK I'M AFRAID OF THAT!?'' '''''FLAME ON!'''''''"''
13-->-- '''Human Torch''', ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''
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15-> "They sing no songs in Hel, nor do they celebrate heroes, for silent is that dismal realm and cheerless. But the story of the Gjallerbru and the god who defended it is whispered across the nine worlds. And when a new arrival asks about the one to whom even Hela bows her head, the answer is always the same: [[YouShallNotPass He stood alone at Gjallerbru...]] and that answer is enough."
16-->-- ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'', issue 362
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19[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
20
21->'''Saladin''': Will you yield the city?\
22'''Balian of Ibelin''': Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places. Ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.\
23'''Saladin''': I wonder if it would not be better if you did.
24-->-- ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven''
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26[[/folder]]
27
28[[folder:Literature]]
29
30->"Nineteenth [Platoon] lasted seventeen minutes from the time the gates closed. They accounted for one-hundred and eighty nine enemy casualties. [[WhatYouAreInTheDark No one witnessed their heroism.]]"
31-->-- ''[[Literature/GauntsGhosts Sabbat Martyr]]''
32
33->''Blood flying. Bone snapping. Flesh tearing. Impacts. Collapses. Swinging. Striking. Pinned. The name of Dorn. Frenzy. Glory. Diaz. Smoke blind. Blood blind. Striking. Again. Camba Diaz. Thrusting. Cutting. Gutting. Striking. Slaying. In the name of his lord. Pinned. Unmoving. Unmovable.\
34The line he had sliced in the rockcrete of the bridge between the lion plinths still lay behind him.''
35-->-- ''Literature/HorusHeresy: Saturnine''
36
37->''"Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter."''
38-->-- '''Hector of Troy''', ''[[Literature/TheIliad Iliad]]'' XXII, Lines 304-5
39
40->''"There's nothing wrong with making a last stand. Just make sure you bring enough grenades to share with the entire class."''
41-->-- '''Alice Healy''', ''[[Literature/InCryptid Discount Armageddon]]''
42
43->''"The difference between a last stand and a [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Tuesday afternoon]] is all in how many bullets you had at the start."''
44-->-- '''Frances Brown''', ''[[Literature/InCryptid Chaos Choreography]]''
45
46->''"What we are doing is not defending. There must be a hundred ships out there. More. Crammed full of Venn. So keep that in mind as you take all the safeguards off the traps. Get the cauldrons on the boil. Pull those stones and flood the basement. What we are going to do, until the last one of us stands, is buy the king time."''
47-->-- '''Liet-Jarlan of Castle Andahi''' ''({{Literature/Inda}})''
48
49->''"Though it may be our part to find a bitter end before the Gate of Mordor, if we do so, then you will come also to a last stand, either here or wherever the black tide overtakes you."''
50-->-- '''Aragorn''', ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings The Return of the King]]''
51
52->''"To the Commander, [[TheEmpire Confederation]] [[SpaceMarine Jumptroopers]]:\
53Sir: Fuck you.\
54We stand until the last man falls."''
55-->-- '''Lord Thomas Reserve Shamba''', ''[[Literature/MatadorSeries The Man Who Never Missed]]''
56
57->''"It was four hundred years ago or more, when the Dothraki first rode out of the east, sacking and burning every town and city in their path. The khal who led them was named Temmo. His khalasar was not so big as Drogo's, but it was big enough. Fifty thousand, at the least. Half of them braided warriors with bells ringing in their hair.\
58The Qohorik knew he was coming. They strengthened their walls, doubled the size of their own guard, and hired two free companies besides, the Bright Banners and the Second Sons. And almost as an afterthought, they sent a man to Astapor to buy three thousand Unsullied. It was a long march back to Qohor, however, and as they approached they saw the smoke and dust and heard the distant din of battle.\
59By the time the Unsullied reached the city the sun had set. Crows and wolves were feasting beneath the walls on what remained of the Qohorik heavy horse. The Bright Banners and Second Sons had fled, as sellswords are wont to do in the face of hopeless odds. With dark falling, the Dothraki had retired to their own camps to drink and dance and feast, but none doubted that they would return on the morrow to smash the city gates, storm the walls, and rape, loot, and slave as they pleased.\
60But when dawn broke and Temmo and his bloodriders led their khalasar out of camp, they found three thousand Unsullied drawn up before the gates with the Black Goat standard flying over their heads. So small a force could easily have been flanked, but you know Dothraki. These were men on foot, and men on foot are fit only to be ridden down.\
61The Dothraki charged. The Unsullied locked their shields, lowered their spears, and stood firm. Against twenty thousand screamers with bells in their hair, they stood firm.\
62Eighteen times the Dothraki charged, and broke themselves on those shields and spears like waves on a rocky shore. Thrice Temmo sent his archers wheeling past and arrows fell like rain upon the Three Thousand, but the Unsullied merely lifted their shields above their heads until the squall had passed. In the end only six hundred of them remained... but more than twelve thousand Dothraki lay dead upon that field, including Khal Temmo, his bloodriders, his kos, and all his sons. On the morning of the fourth day, the new khal led the survivors past the city gates in a stately procession. One by one, each man cut off his braid and threw it down before the feet of the Three Thousand."''
63-->-- ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
64
65->''But the Men of Dor-lómin held the rearguard, as Húrin and Huor desired; for they did not wish in their hearts to leave the Northlands, and if they could not win back to their homes, there they would stand to the end. Thus was the treachery of Uldor redressed; and of all the deeds of war that the fathers of Men wrought in behalf of the Eldar, the last stand of the Men of Dor-lómin is most renowned.''
66-->-- ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''
67
68->''Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried: ''"Aure entuluva! [[HopeSpringsEternal Day shall come again!]]"''. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Seventy times he uttered that cry]]; but they took him at last alive.''
69-->-- ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''
70
71->''Today, men, I ask of you your lives. I ask of you your lives, and your courage. I ask of you your faith and your honor- your strength and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it good, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this. Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!''
72
73->''In the end, they will kill us. But first, they shall fear us!''
74-->-- '''Elend Venture''', ''[[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy The Hero of Ages]]''
75
76->''"We've got ourselves a goddamn hero here. Can't think, can't fight, no bloody use at all except for a famous last stand and a medal sent to his ol' mum. And I've been in a few famous last stands, lad, and they're butcher shops. That's what Blouse's leading you into, mark my words. What'll you lot do then, eh? We've had a few scuffles, but that's not war. Think you'll be man enough to stand, when the metal meets the meat?"\
77"You did, sarge," said Polly. "You said you were in a few last stands."\
78"Yeah, lad. But I was holding the metal."''
79-->-- ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''
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82[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
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84->''"The Humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the Humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep. They would pray. They would say goodbye to their loved ones and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself. Never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable, could help but be moved to tears by their courage, their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used knives. And sticks. And bare hands. They were magnificent! I only hope, when it is my time, that I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But in the end, they ran out of time."''
85-->-- '''Londo Mollari''', ''Series/BabylonFive''
86
87->''"If this should be, our final stand,\
88we will stand together with pride\
89We will honor the past, and fight to the last\
90it will be AGoodWayToDie"''
91-->-- "A Good Way to Die", heard in the ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' MusicalEpisode "Brigadoom"
92
93->''"Yo Way Yo, Home Va-Ray,\
94Yo Ay-Rah, Jerhume Brunnen-G\
95Yo Way Yo, Home Va-Ray,\
96Yo Ay-Rah, Jerhume Brunnen-G\
97Yo Ay-Rah, Jerhume Brunnen-G"''
98-->-- "Brunnen-G Fight Song," ''Series/{{Lexx}}''
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102[[folder:Music]]
103
104->''"Lord of all Noldor\
105A star in the night\
106And a bearer of hope\
107He rides into his glorious battle alone\
108Farewell to the valiant warlord\
109The Fate of us all\
110Lies deep in the dark\
111When time stands still at the iron hill"''
112-->-- '''Music/BlindGuardian''', "Time Stands Still"
113
114->''"He left the phone hanging, then came back and said:\
115"We've nothing to fight with, and may wind up dead.\
116But we've voted to stand up and fight them instead\
117And we might keep them from getting through."''
118-->-- '''Music/LeslieFish''', "Flight 93"
119
120->''"When the night has come\
121And the land is dark\
122And the moon is the only light we'll see\
123No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid\
124Just as long as you stand, stand by me"''
125-->-- '''Music/BenEKing''', "Stand by Me"
126
127->''"There came wi' false Inveray thirty-and-three\
128There was nane wi' bonny Brackley but his brother and he;\
129Twa gallanter Gordons did never sword draw,\
130But against three-and-thirty, what is ane, what are twa?\
131Wi' swords and wi' daggers they did him surround,\
132An' they pierced bonny Brackley wi' many's the wound\
133Frae the heid o' the Dee, tae the banks o' the Spey,\
134The Gordons shall mourn them, and ban Inveray."''
135-->-- "Baron O' Brackley"
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137
138->''"Imperial force defied\
139facing five hundred samurai\
140surrounded and outnumbered\
141sixty to one the sword faced the gun\
142Bushido dignified\
143It's the last stand of the samurai!"''
144-->-- '''Music/{{Sabaton}}''', [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiroyama "Shiroyama"]]
145
146->''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_of_the_Swiss_Guard "Then the One Hundred Eighty-Nine]]\
147In the service of Heaven\
148They're protecting the holy line\
149It was 1527\
150Gave their lives on the steps to Heaven\
151Thy will be done!"''
152-->-- '''Music/{{Sabaton}}''', "The Last Stand"
153
154->''"Last fight at little big horn\
155The hand of death was waiting\
156To take the [[UsefulNotes/TheSeventhCavalry soldier blue]] away\
157Last fight at Little Big Horn\
158Where the last command was given\
159And all the soldiers fought in vain"''
160-->-- '''Music/RunningWild''', [[TheWildWest "Little Big Horn"]]
161
162->''"On patrol in sector seven, keeping watch on Barber's sun\
163They were jumped by three light cruisers, though they weren't a match for one\
164As they came to general quarters and they sent out the alarm\
165Dawson's crew was sure they'd finally bought the farm\
166No one living saw that battle, though the fleet was quick to leave\
167When they reached the site they found a scene no sane man could believe\
168Dead in space lay three light cruisers, cut to ribbons all around\
169But no sign of Dawson's Christian could be found"''
170-->--'''Carmen Miranda's Ghost''', "Dawson's Christian"
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177[[folder:Poetry]]
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179->''"Then out spake brave Horatius,\
180The Captain of the Gate:\
181'To every man upon this earth\
182Death cometh soon or late.\
183And how can man die better\
184Than facing fearful odds,\
185For the ashes of his fathers,\
186And the temples of his gods"''
187-->-- '''Thomas Babbington Macaulay''', "Lays of Ancient Rome"
188
189->''"If we must die - let it not be like hogs\
190Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,\
191While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,\
192Making their mock at our accursed lot.\
193If we must die - oh, let us nobly die,\
194So that our precious blood may not be shed\
195In vain; then even the monsters we defy\
196Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!\
197Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe;\
198Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave,\
199And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!\
200What though before us lies the open grave?\
201Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,\
202Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"''
203-->-- '''Claude [=McKay=]''', "If We Must Die"
204
205->''"The sand of the desert is sodden red,—\
206Red with the wreck of a square that broke;—\
207The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,\
208And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.\
209The river of death has brimmed his banks,\
210And England's far, and Honour a name,\
211But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:\
212"Play up! play up! and play the game!"''
213-->-- '''Henry Newbolt''', "Vitai Lambada"
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217[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
218
219->''"If there can be no victory, then I will fight forever."''
220-->-- '''Koth of the Hammer''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', [[http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/products/mbs/zha05s7jh9_en.jpg "Darksteel Plate"]]
221
222->''"That is what it means to the chosen of [[TabletopGame/{{Inquisitor}} the inquisition]]: to realize that one's task is impossible and attempt it anyway. Out of Hope. Out of Duty. If nothing else, than out of sheer Spite."''
223-->-- '''Inquisitor Lichtenstein'''' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
224
225->'''Captain Roima''': I cry out for troops and you give me rhetoric -- I plead for ammunition and you give me speeches -- I ask you again, Commander, what can you pledge me?\
226'''Commander Tarrel''': A heroic death, Captain
227-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
228
229->''"The green tide of Orkdom is upon us and we are alone. There can be no mercy. No surrender. If we survive this day it will be a miracle."''
230-->-- '''Commissar Yarrick''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
231
232->''"That was the last of the redoubts. Now we come to the meat of it. Let duty be your sword. Honor be your shield. Many depend on how we acquit ourselves this day. We shall not falter. We shall not show fear! We are Greatswords of Averland! Mighty mages and loyal dwarfs! We are the soldiers of the Empire and we shall not yield! In Sigmar's name!"''
233-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Forge of War''
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237[[folder:Video Games]]
238
239->''"Boy, oh, boy... the price of freedom is steep... ''[draws his sword]'' Embrace your dreams... and whatever happens... protect your honor... AS SOLDIER!!! [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner COME AND GET IT!!!]]"''
240-->-- '''Zack Fair''', ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''
241
242->Though the battle was all but lost, the soldiers rallied to their leader to heed her command one last time. The enemy would know the strength of their arms and the resolution that burned within their hearts.\
243[[DyingMomentOfAwesome If only but for a fleeting and final moment]].
244-->-- FlavourText of the '''Rally magic''', ''VideoGame/DawnOfTheDragons''
245
246->''"[[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard]] casualties reach 97% before evacuation is complete. [[SuperSoldier Blood Ravens]] losses: total... They refused to retreat."''
247-->-- The '''([[NoCanonForTheWicked non-canon]]) [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid]]''' campaign ending, ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Dawn of War II: Retribution]]''
248
249->''“The fire burned within us. Not by choice, not because we sought the flame. But because there was no other way.''\
250''“When you stood before the Forge, there was no doubt. No fear. Not even anger.''\
251''“My order stood for generations. We held against the shadow, bearing a weapon [[KillItWithFire that seared flesh and melted bone.]]''\
252''“And now we stand at the end. May history remember the Forge. Remember the Hammer. Remember the Sunbreakers.”''
253-->--'''Ouros, Third and Final Empyreal Magistrate of the Sunbreaker''', ''Videogame/Destiny2'', Lore: "Hollow Heart"
254
255->''"Can you survive? Alone? The Covenant decided long ago to take Reach and no single man - make that no single Spartan - could stop them. You fought long and hard and gave Reach your all to achieve this point. Fight if you must, but understand that you owe Reach nothing. Your efforts will line on the annals of history, and all of humanity will sing your praises for centuries to come. Be the Lone Wolf if you desire and fight for all you can, but you know this is not a battle you can win. It is time to say goodbye."''
256-->-- '''[[https://halo.fandom.com/wiki/Lone_Wolf Halo Alpha]]''' on the mission "Lone Wolf", ''VideoGame/HaloReach''
257
258->''"We held out longer than Shreveport. We held out longer than Baton Rouge. WE HELD OUT LONGER."''
259-->-- '''Wall graffiti''', ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2''
260
261->''"I cannot hold out for long, but the Pfhor will not soon forget the day that a lone corvette obliterated half of Battle Group Seven, Western Arm."''
262-->-- '''Durandal''', ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}} 2''
263
264->''"Ack! Ack! No way! I'm going out in a blaze of glory!\
265Ha-ha! Ack! [[BringIt Come on! I'll take it all on!]]\
266Never! Never! I won't give up until the bitter end!"''
267-->-- BoisterousBruiser teammates in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'', when at critical health
268
269->''"On a distant, shadowed world, the protoss will make their final stand. Their heroes will gather, their forces will be marshaled, and they will die bravely. But still, they will die."''
270-->-- '''[[spoiler:The Overmind]]''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftII''
271
272->''"My brethren, hear me, for there is little time left. All that remains of our race, our civilization, are those that stand beside you now. Trust in each other, strike as one will. Let our last stand burn a memory so bright we will be remembered forever! En Taro Tassadar!"''
273-->-- '''Hierarch Artanis''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftII''
274
275->''"You're gonna have to try a little harder than THAT!"''
276-->-- '''Undyne the Undying''', ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}''
277
278->'''Blazkowicz''': I'm on the move. I need to find Wyatt and Caroline. You should come with me.\
279'''J''': I'm kind of in a spot, you know. Pretty well cornered by the man, actually. I appreciate the offer, but, you know... I've been on the run my whole life. So sick of the silence. I figure, when I'm gone, I'll be silent, you know, 'til the end of time, but... This moment, right now? It's gonna be ''loud''.
280-->--''Videogame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''
281
282->''"It's good to see you survived that last assault, but when the Burning Legion makes its final push, they'll wipe us out. [[ItHasBeenAnHonor It's been an honor]] to fight by your side all these years, but our strength was not enough to save Azeroth. Before we meet death, let's send a few hundred demons screaming back to the Twisting Nether!"''
283-->-- '''Archmage Khadgar''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
284
285->''"Scattered in Hell, abandoned by their clergy and reinforcements, the Sentinels proved their worth in what would be their final war with the forces of all evil. Unrelenting power in the face of certain death, the Sentinels crushed hundreds of demons and skewered Titans. When their Atlans held no more fuel the Sentinels took to the ground and fought the swarms on land. All of Hell knew of the Betrayal, for it was without question the Maykrs and the Priests who had sowed the seeds of deceit long before the brave warriors passed through the gate. What Hell saw that day was the beating heart of the free people of Argent D'Nur; they did not flinch in the face of their own certain death. They died as they lived, with sword and shield in hand, Urdak too low a place to house such giants. Theirs would be the fate of warrior gods, remembered for all time."''
286-->-- '''Codex: History of the Sentinels''', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''
287
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289
290[[folder:Web Comics]]
291
292->''"You always go down guns blazing. Thats what a hero does when he loves adventure and has guns. If theres one thing movies have taught me [[Film/WeekendAtBernies besides the fact that guys using a corpse as a silly puppet is friggin HILARIOUS]] it is THAT FACT."''
293-->-- '''Jake English''', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
294
295->'''Doyt:''' Like that one ancient Earth general said, [[FutureImperfect "Never, never, never give up Winston Church Hill."]]\
296'''Haban:''' I've never understood that hill metaphor.
297-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''
298
299[[/folder]]
300
301[[folder:Web Original]]
302
303->'''[[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed]]:''' We are surrounded! ''I am not in my happy place, Heavy! I am not in my happy place!''\
304'''[[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Heavy Weapons Guy]]:''' (''[[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan SMACK]]'') ...Put your fists up, little man...
305-->-- ''YoutubePoop: [[Creator/MoBrosStudios Skellington's Revenge]]''
306
307[[/folder]]
308
309[[folder:Real Life]]
310
311->''"Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed, like a beautiful flower?"''
312-->-- '''General Anami''', Japanese War Minister, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII demanding the right to continue fighting after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]]
313
314->''"The Guard dies, but the Guard does not surrender!"''
315-->-- Attributed to '''General Count Cambronne''' of [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon's]] [[PraetorianGuard Imperial Guard]], when asked to surrender during the Battle of Waterloo[[note]]Alternatively he's quoted as saying ''Merde'' ("Shit", though a less literal translation would be "Fuck Off")[[/note]]
316
317->''"Politique intérieure, je fais la guerre; politique extérieure, je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre."\
318("Interior policy, I wage war; foreign policy, I wage war. I always wage war.")''
319-->-- '''George Clemenceau'''
320
321->''"For over five years [Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something that he could set on fire."''
322-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler'''
323
324->''"Long before Custer died at the Little Bighorn, the myth of the Last Stand already had a strong pull on human emotions, and on the way we like to remember history. The variations are endless -— from the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae to UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett at the Alamo -— but they all tell the story of a brave and intractable hero leading his tiny band against a numberless foe. Even though the odds are overwhelming, the hero and his followers fight on nobly to the end and are slaughtered to a man. In defeat the hero of the Last Stand achieves the greatest of victories, since he will be remembered for all time."''
325-->-- '''Nathaniel Philbrick'''
326
327->''"Go tell the Spartans, passer-by, that here, by Spartan law, we lie."''
328-->-- '''Simonides''', epitaph for the Spartan dead at the Battle of Thermopylae
329
330-> ''"We do not demand such sacrifices from our leaders abroad out of cruelty. We expect to make them here ourselves. The ghetto is going to go up in flames. We are not going to die in slow torment, but fighting. We will declare war on Germany -- the most hopeless declaration of war that has ever been made."''
331-->-- '''Jan Kozielewski, later Jan Karski''', a member of the Jewish resistance during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, quoting a leader of the Uprising during a meeting.
332
333-> ''"They have fought bravely, and forced us to waste a couple of hours in deployment and maneuver."''
334-->-- '''Notes from a German commander's report regarding an unknown platoon of engineers during the Battle of the Bulge.'''
335
336-> ''"Well, the war is over. All that's left is to fight to our heart's content... Our goal is UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu's head!"''
337-->-- '''UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura''', just before his final charge and death in [[UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod Siege of Osaka.]]
338
339-> ''"We’ll fight them both, they’ll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye"''
340-->-- ''' Last Radio message from the British Merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi, who took on two German battleships rather than surrender.'''
341
342-> ''"Hello, hello. Do you hear us? This is our last broadcast. Today German troops invaded Warsaw. We send brotherly greetings to the fighting soldiers from Hela, wherever they are. Poland is still not lost! Long live Poland!"''
343-->-- ''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-deyaj7jo Poland's final radio broadcast]] before the Fall of Warsaw during World War II '''
344
345-->''The crew were informed over the loud speaker system at the beginning of the action, of the Commanding Officer's estimate of the situation, that is, a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected, during which time we would do what damage we could. In the face of this knowledge the men zealously manned their stations wherever they might be, and fought and worked with such calmness, courage and efficiency that no higher honor could be conceived than to command such a group of men.''
346-->-- Action report of USS ''Samuel B Roberts'', reporting the words of '''Captain Robert W. Copeland'''
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