Quotes About Sacrifice

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.

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No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.")

Love must risk all or perish.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

Have you ever heard of the theory that it is better for one man to die than an entire nation to suffer? Do you believe that to be true? Is it ever okay to take a life in hopes of saving others?

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

They won the war but lost the peace,

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.

Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it.

One day my grandson said to me, grandpa were you a hero in the war? And i said to him no I'm not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

That's war. It won't let anyone get away unscathed. I'm sorry about Grete."Verner aka 'Jens'in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.