Quotes About Sacrifice

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.