Quotes About Sacrifice

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no rom

You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

To achieve peace, we needed to have a war to start with.

We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never.

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.

Nobody returned alive from the war.

Victory stands on the back of sacrifice

It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan

Soldiers are not trained for retire

The holy war is warfare.

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

For some soldiers, there is a greater war going on behind the gun's shadow of family and friends, than in front of the gun pointing at strange enemies.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,