No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able to see for crying, but I would have considered that a duty.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.