A Quote by John Adams
Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
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Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."
... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.
Live or die, sink or swim.
I love putting myself in sink-or-swim situations. You realize the human spirit is built to survive.
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.
It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.
As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.
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