Some great replies in military contexts...
Byters who have watched the movies 300 Spartans and 300 will be familiar with one of the shortest and most defiant responses to a call to surrender, that of Leonidas, leader of the Spartans. Leonidas defended the pass at Thermopylae, holding it against a much larger Persian army.
Envoys sent by the Persian leader called upon Leonidas to surrender, saying “You are fools to resist. The Persian archers alone are so numerous that their arrows will darken the sun.”
"Then we shall fight in the shade” replied Leonidas.
