Quotes About Sacrifice

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.