Quotes About Sacrifice

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

Wage war on death. Live for love.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

War is young men dying and old men talking

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!