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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.209, Random House

I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

William Wells Brown (2003). “The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave”, p.43, Courier Corporation