Once more unto the breach...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!

[Arravis]

Ok, here is the Frankenspeech I've molded out of the pieces of other competent writers:

Warriors of Damara,
You have long seen what tyrants can bring to the world.
You have seen what injustice they spread,
And you have seen their evil in your own homeland.
My homeland.
We fight this day so that others would not anguish as you have.

Battles against the forces of darkness have been lost and won before,
But never without hope!
For we were always there, always in reserve.
Who are they who would take the suffering of others?
Who are they that would right the wrongs before us?
Who are they with the courage to do all this?
We are the last of heroes,
We are valor!

By the god’s will, I pray,
I wish not one man more than those that stand with me this day!
So, hold fast to the ground you defend,
And let the enemy tremble as we take his!

 

[Warrior Poet]

Personal favorite is Eomer's charge song:

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.

Other classics, though these do invoke common vernacular and more readily recognized references: "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country, he won it by making the other bastard die for his." -General George S. Patton

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . ." -Sir Winston Churchill

"Duty is heavier than iron, yet death is lighter than a feather" -Japanese proverb

Warrior Poet

 

[Warrior Poet]

From World War II, as told to tank soldiers of the Soviet Army, in the face of the advancing German war machine:

"When you run out of gasoline, become a pill box. When you run out of ammunition, become a bunker. When you run out of armor, become a hero."

Warrior Poet

 

[Darth Mikey]

From World War II, as told to tank soldiers of the Soviet Army, in the face of the advancing German war machine:

"When you run out of gasoline, become a pill box. When you run out of ammunition, become a bunker. When you run out of armor, become a hero."

Warrior Poet

That's a good one.

 

[Renshai]

Good speech Arravis, very inspiring!

 

[Warrior Poet]

There's also the classic Spartan quote, upon learning that the Persian army had so many archers that their flights of arrows filled the sky and blotted out the sun:

"Then we shall fight them in the shade."


"Outnumbered? Yes. Outgunned? Maybe. Outclassed? Never." Don't know where this one came from, just rememberd it from somewhere.

Marechal Joffre or Foch

It was Foch. The dispatch read: "Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack!"

The Germans retreated. The power of Positive Thinking.

Warrior Poet

 

[Fighter1]

For some reason this sits in my head and I occasionally recall it; I have no idea where it came from or if I even recall it with 100% accuracy (heck for all I know I thought this up when I was 10 or something...); so for what its worth:

"There are times for discretion and diplomacy, there are times for niceties and courtesy and then there are these times where neither of the formers need be thought. This is the time for battle where your heart will run free as the warrior within each of you is released unto the demons before us - knowing that the blood you spill of thy enemy will wrought your children's lives longer and prosperous and where your own blood, should it spill this day, will make those children remember what it is to be what they are - from this day forward should you see tomorrow or naught - you are forever immortal."

 

[Warrior Poet]

More:

General Cota, Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944: "Gentlemen, we're being killed on the beaches! Let's go inland and be killed!"

Warrior Poet

 

[Fighter1]

There is also that short speech from "Gladiator" made by Russell Crow's character (in the beginning of the movie) right before the Roman calvary started their move...it ended with "fear not for you are in the Ellusion fields..." or something like that.

 

[Warrior Poet]

There is also that short speech from "Gladiator" made by Russell Crow's character (in the beginning of the movie) right before the Roman calvary started their move...it ended with "fear not for you are in the Ellusion fields..." or something like that.

"And if you find yourself riding alone in a green field, fear not! For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"