Quotes About Sacrifice

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Freedom is not free

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingness to sacrifice for them. Accepting Republican nomination, Detroit, July 17, 1980

Cuando tu independencia te ha costado tantísimo como le costó a Marie, tiendes a convertirte en una gallina clueca que, sentada sobre el pequeño huevo de su libertad, arrea picotazos a cuantos se acercan.

Amar es dar lo que no se tiene a quien no es».

Laurence Binyon. He was Poet Laureate at the end of the Great War. He wrote it." "What did he write?" "They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Matamos lo que amamos, lo demas no ha estado vivo nunca.

Pero Rominka no quería morir, no quería enloquecer. Los hijos, aún balbucientes la reclamaban. El marido la quería. Y su propia carne, no importaba si marchita, si enferma, pero viva, se estremecía de terror ante la amenaza.

towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?

Although Emilie Perle had schooled him well in how to love without being loved in return, he could now see how this state of lovelessness had made him obsessive in his quest for superficial order and control.

True Christians are made to be slaves.

So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

1 Corinthians 13 is nothing less than the nature of Jesus, and it is all gift to us, for His nature is ours, if He is ours.

The most cognitively brilliant people usually have had to sacrifice their emotional selves.

I beg you to see this in the right light, and to combine it with the feeling about what happened through the Mystery of Golgotha, in which his actual sacrifice consisted: namely in leaving the spiritual spheres in order to live with the earth and the human beings on the earth and to consolidate the impulse he gave for further human evolution on earth.

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall? [ For All We Have and Are ]

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!

Fit to do anything," said the Second-in-Command enthusiastically. "But it seems to me they're a thought too young and tender for the work in hand. It's bitter cold up at the Front now." "They're sound enough," said the Colonel. "We must take our chance of sick casualties.