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{{quote|''"[[Rousing Speech|Go, ye heroes, go to glory]] --
''[[To the Pain|Though ye die in combat gory]],
''[[Famed in Story|Ye shall live in song and story!]]
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''[[Trope Namer|Go, ye heroes, go and die]]!"''|'''Mabel Stanley and her sisters''' to cowardly policemen, ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]''}}
 
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== Real Life ==
* Paul McCartney gives one of these early in the ''[[Let It Be]]'' sessions. (Yes, one of these made a [[Documentary]].) It did not go over well.
* Too many [[Real Life]] [[Uncle Sam Wants You|recruitment appeals]] [[Older Than They Think|to count,]] back in the 19th and prior to [[World War OneI]] when [[Blood Knight|death on the battlefield]] was still considered the highest honor. Before the horrors of mechanized warfare in the trenches began to seep down to the general public, it was considered ''inspirational'' to tell [[New Meat]] that [[Anyone Can Die|"perhaps you'll die]] in battle... but you'll ''[[Band of Brothers|die with honor]]!!!"''
** In the days when the alternative was returning to die an extended slow death in an urban slum, of disease or starvation or coal miner's lung or whatever, it probably ''was'' sweet and fitting (or at least more so than the alternative) to die for one's country.
** A particularly significant one was a speech from Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Italian Wars of Independence: "Follow me, ye generous souls who abhor oppression and the chains of slavery. Follow me. I cannot offer you ammunition not barracks; all I can offer you is hunger, cold, sun, battles and death. If you love your country, follow me."
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