Quotes About Sacrifice

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

No soldier ever really survives a war.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Nobody dislikes war more than warriors.

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Killing is the payoff of war.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?