I always liked Shakespeare's Saint Crispin's day speech.\n\n"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; \n    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me \n    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, \n    This day shall gentle his condition; \n    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed \n    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, \n    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks \n    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day"