Quotes About Sacrifice

Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered

All those unclaimed arms and legs lost in the fields of Flanders – Ursula imagined them pushing roots down into the mud and shoots up to the sky and growing once again into men. An army of men marching back for revenge.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.