Quotes About Sacrifice

We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.

Even if you succeed in study and business, if your nation collapses, then what good is it for?

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.