Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1875 |
AUTHOR: | Horace Mann (17961859) |
QUOTATION: | Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. |
ATTRIBUTION: | The motivating principle of Manns life was nowhere better or more clearly expressed than in the oft-quoted words with which he closed his last Commencement address at Antioch College.Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 6, p. 243. Mann died a few weeks later. He had served in Congress 18481853. |
SUBJECTS: | Victory |