Quotes About Sacrifice

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.

...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

World War II was a must win.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.