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Quotes About Sacrifice

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
~ James Norman Hall
The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve.
~ Swami Satchidananda
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
~ Joseph Hopkinson
I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.
~ Florence Nightingale
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
~ Daniel Berrigan
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.
~ Ken Gillespie
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
~ Arthur Hertzberg
If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
~ Pope John Paul II
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
~ Olaf Stapledon
People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.
~ Peace Pilgrim
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
~ Bob Dylan
We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
~ Dolly Parton
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
~ Benjamin Franklin
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.
~ Kid Rock
To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.
~ Neneh Cherry
Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.
~ Glen Duncan
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
~ Harry S. Truman
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~ Douglas MacArthur