Quotes About Sacrifice

of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice—if the choice turns out to look like a 'noble sacrifice—

martyrdom. If Mike had given them something big—like stereo, or bingo—but he gave them the Truth. Or a piece

If it has to be done, a man—a real man—shoots his own dog himself; he doesn't

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia—the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death . . . before they breed more hemophiliacs.

There is an old picture of a people traveling by sleigh through deep woods—pursued by wolves. Every now and then they grab one of their number and toss him to the wolves. That's conscription even if you call it "selective service" and pretty it up with USOs and "veterans' benefits

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of

Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?

The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation

Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

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I knew the deeper meaning of "better death than dishonor"—I knew now why Roman matrons said, "With your shield or on it.

You. What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?" "The difference," I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.

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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

and their stern Father God demands endless sacrifices, offers no joy on earth but only duty blindly obeyed, and threatens sadistic tortures (for an infinite number of years, according to some theologians) to anyone who crosses him. It almost seems as if history, at least in the Occident, repeats the pattern Freud found in the nursery, from oral bliss to anal anxiety.

Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.

Their history was in their eyes, and their sacrifices in their scars.

Even in peacetime, a military man is deployed for long periods, leaving his spouse to take care of the children and their schooling, to pay the bills, to make sure the lawn is mowed and the oil in the car is changed, and to handle dozens of other tasks usually done by him. During wartime, always hanging over the military wife is the fear that her husband may be wounded or killed in combat.

They were about to go to war with Uncle Sam. And it broke their hearts.

It doesn't matter if, like the Doolittle Raiders, the time comes when the Mistys can be counted on one hand. When only one Misty is left, that man will have his own reunion, and he will hoist a glass to his brothers who flew up north and who were in the shit on every mission. He will drink to those who never came back.