Gates of Fire (1998)

"Our arrows will black out the sun." "Good, then we'll fight in the shade." - Dienekes

“I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them. He serves them, not they him. That is a king, Your Majesty. A king does not expend his substance to enslave men, but by his conduct and example makes them free." - Xeo

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel." - Dienekes

When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation, but to spend his substance for them, his comrades, not to abandon them, not to prove unworthy of them, then his heart truly has achieved contempt for death, and with that he transcends himself and his actions touch the sublime.

"Deliver him." - Suicide

"Now eat a good breakfast, men. For we'll all be sharing dinner in hell." - Leonidas

“Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you." - Dienekes

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