• Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.

    George William Curtis: Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
    "The Call of Freedom". "Orations and Addresses" by George William Curtis, www.bartleby.com. 1894.