Quotes About Sacrifice

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it. I'm trying to unpack why, to look at what it means to be a hero in the context of 21st-century combat.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

War makes its own morals.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

Old men make wars that young men may die.