Quotes About Sacrifice

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

From the Book of Mormon we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

You may hate the war, but never hate the ones that fight. For they do not choose when or where to fight. All they chose was to protect who they love and even the people they don't know.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

There's never any guarantee at war.