Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1875 |
| AUTHOR: | Horace Mann (1796–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | “The motivating principle of Mann’s life was nowhere better or more clearly expressed than in the oft-quoted words with which he closed his last Commencement address at Antioch College.”—Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 6, p. 243. Mann died a few weeks later. He had served in Congress 1848–1853. |
| SUBJECTS: | Victory |