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Victory or Death
Hurley seems to want to look death in the face and achieve a victory and talks Charlie into helping him even with the ever-looming prediction of his death. Just before they charge down the hill in the van, Charlie tells Hurley, "Victory or Death". And victory they did achieve, narrowly missing the rocks at the bottom of the hill and starting the van successfully just in time.
Victory or death is the motto of the 32nd Armored Regiment of the U.S. Army. It is visible on the yellow-and-red regimental emblem in some photographs of Elvis Presley during his Army service in Germany with that regiment, and in his later film "G.I. Blues". The emblem also appears on the black beret seen in the 1986 film "Ferris Buellers Day Off".
It reflects an older Scottish Gaelic clan motto, bàs no buaidh or buaidh no bàs, which has the same meaning, used by the MacNeills and MacDougalls amongst others.
Victory or Death was also an order given to Erwin Rommel and Friedrich Paulus at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Stalingrad, respectively, by Adolf Hitler in 1942.
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